The retracted studies mar hope for the drug’s use in depression.

This month’s newsletter highlights findings on the use of three medication types during pregnancy.

This month’s newsletter explores the pandemic’s effects on autism rates, trends in co-occurring mental health conditions, and the impact of intranasal oxytocin.

Common variants in five regions of the genome may determine whether someone has one condition versus the other.

Mood, anxiety, personality and eating disorders more commonly affect autistic people diagnosed in adulthood than those diagnosed in childhood.

Doctors can prescribe it, but evidence that ketamine eases autism traits is still preliminary.

The co-occurring conditions may stem from the heightened stress people in minority communities experience.

Among people who carry the fragile X premutation, about 14 percent of boys and 5 percent of girls meet the criteria for autism, but the ‘broad autism phenotype’ may be far more common.

The researchers attempted to retroactively identify signs of autism in people who died by suicide, but their analysis is not convincing.

Some copy number variants may boost a person’s chances of having autism, but to a lesser extent than previously thought.