Brain waves in infancy forecast autism, people with more autism features have trouble detecting lies, and veterinarians battle claims that vaccines cause autism in dogs.

Girls with autism may have less severe restricted and repetitive behaviors than do boys on the spectrum.

With a growing acknowledgement of self-awareness in people with autism, self-report questionnaires are gaining popularity in research and clinical practice.

A large dataset that catalogs the features of many brain conditions could transform the quest for biomarkers of autism.

Customized cutoff scores could boost the accuracy of a popular autism screen in certain populations.

A rating of high severity of autism from the DSM-5, the latest version of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” tracks with low intelligence scores.

Watch the complete replay of our roundtable on the utility of the DSM-5’s diagnostic criteria for autism. 

Researchers have developed behavioral measures that can accurately diagnose autism in people; these lessons can and should be applied to mice.

A new questionnaire assesses the frequency and severity of various behaviors in children with autism.

Autism parents fall for the marketing of essential oils, the pruning hypothesis of brain development matures, and an online manual classifies mouse behavior.