Not much is known about the connection between autism and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a condition that affects collagen. But preliminary work provides tantalizing clues.

Spectrum heads to Chicago to cover the 2019 Society for Neuroscience meeting.

A behavioral therapy called pivotal response treatment may boost the communication skills of autistic children with language delay better than do standard speech and autism therapies.

People tend to believe that, regardless of the treatment, more is always better. But is it?

Envisioned as bioRxiv’s clinical cousin, the new preprint server medRxiv hosts unpublished manuscripts describing original medical research.

Adults with autism are nearly 50 percent more likely to die in the hospital than their typical peers.

Most community clinicians do not deliver care that is in line with the latest evidence — and they are not improving over time.

Many first-time sex offenders on the spectrum may not understand the laws they break. How should their crimes be treated?

An autistic journalist is cautiously optimistic that the annual INSAR conference is becoming more inclusive of the autism community.

The first online registry dedicated to autism research is scheduled to close down on 30 June, ending a 13-year run.