Parlaying a postdoc into one of a dwindling number of faculty positions takes hard work and sheer luck.

Some say a focus on basic neuroscience is crushing clinical research, a gene database gets a big upgrade, and Autism Speaks revises its goals.

School and medical records for children with autism in largely Hispanic neighborhoods often do not reflect the children’s condition.

A group of savvy parents jump-started autism research in California, but they also set the research agenda.

Hillary Clinton releases an expansive mental health care agenda; researchers call for autism research in sub-Saharan Africa; and a scientist alleges gender bias at the National Institutes of Health.

An autism researcher retracts her third paper in as many years, scientists write fraudulent reviews of their own papers, and Pokémon Go boosts social skills in children with autism.

Like many parents of children with autism, Braulio De La Cruz sought an expensive therapy called applied behavioral analysis — or ABA — when his son Noah Leonardo was diagnosed last year. Noah, now 3 years old, qualifies for Medicaid coverage because he had been approved for Social Security’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, and […]

The media offers clarity on prenatal folate levels and autism, early-career women scientists make less than their male counterparts, and states grapple with what to do with babies’ blood.

Scientists give their perspectives on work presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research.

People may misconstrue basic research as ready remedies, so scientists must work to prevent misinterpretation of their findings.