What does ‘autism’ mean? And who owns this term? A keynote talk at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research dove headlong into this rabbit hole of words and their many meanings.

Children born to women who develop diabetes during the first or second trimester of pregnancy increase their risk of autism by 42 percent.

A boy with autism maps the world from memory, and would-be profs are trapped in perpetual postdocs.

A 20-minute test enlists parents in gauging a toddler’s social development by showing them a video of how a typically developing child acts.

Increasing parental age accounted for just 2.7 percent of the rise in autism prevalence between 1994 and 2001, according to a study of New York City families published 17 March in Maternal and Child Health Journal.

With the help of Korean mothers, doctors and teachers, researchers have created a culturally appropriate translation of an information kit on autism.

Rushed doctors and lack of culturally appropriate screening tools are boosting autism diagnoses in India.

A human gene gives mice bigger brains, and people with autism weigh in on that white or blue dress.

Investors pour money into ‘brain medicines,’ and people with autism debate the need for a cure.

The U.S. government is expanding its autism monitoring program to better understand the rising prevalence of the disorder, particularly in light of controversial changes to autism’s diagnostic criteria.