A drug used to treat type 2 diabetes reverses behavioral and brain abnormalities in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome.

Measuring how long a mouse cozies up with a cagemate in a tiny tube can help to detect social impairments in mice.

Autism researchers’ top priority should be shifting their focus to finding treatments for severe forms of the condition.

Paternal age drives ‘geek index’ scores, GWAS may have a big weakness, serotonin boosts mouse social behaviors, and what is science Tinder?

Probing the function of a protein in a calcium signaling pathway may lead to a diagnostic test for autism and a path toward treatments.

Mice have long been the mainstay of autism research, but a small group of scientists say rats are the superior choice. Rats are bigger, smarter, friendlier — and a lot more fun.

Many researchers oppose unfettered deregulation of the drug approval process, but welcome more relaxed rules for clinical trials.

Conventional wisdom holds that people with autism don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs, but new evidence suggests otherwise.

Clinical trials for autism drugs have been plagued with problems: bad design, the wrong measures, too broad a range of participants. All that is finally starting to change.

Children with autism show an increase in restricted interests in their preteen years that is not seen in those with fragile X syndrome.