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Patterns of brain activity in 6-month-old babies accurately predict which children will be diagnosed with autism at age 2.

Coaching parents to provide early social stimulation may improve outcomes for children with autism.

Children with autism are often clumsy, physically awkward or uncoordinated. This understudied and nearly ubiquitous feature has researchers contemplating a new idea: Could motor problems be one source of autism’s social difficulties?

Teasing out how genes interact can offer clues to autism’s causes and point to treatment targets.

Studying the heterogeneity of autism features over time can help us understand why some children do better or worse than expected.

The activity of a set of proteins in the blood may distinguish people with autism from those without the condition.

Infants who are later diagnosed with autism show inconsistent patterns of brain waves in response to the same sound.

Drugs that alter the activity of vasopressin, a hormone involved in social behavior, may improve social abilities in people with autism.