A growing proportion of researchers has reached such “super principal investigator” status, but the distribution is not even across demographic groups.

Compared with their non-autistic peers, young autistic girls have a thicker cortex that thins more quickly with age.

Profound autism prevalence rose from 2002 to 2016, though not nearly as much as non-profound autism did.

The Gender Self-Report could help autism researchers include more gender-diverse people across a range of ages and neurotypes in their work.

This edition takes aim at the autism-intervention evidence base with a slew of null results, plus findings that challenge a prevailing autism brain theory.

Common diagnostic and research practices may be adding to autism’s sex bias, but there are some simple steps scientists can take to counteract it.

Such high expression levels may account for the condition’s sex bias, a new preprint suggests — but not everyone agrees with that logic.

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

The growth differences vary between autistic boys and girls and are most apparent among children with prominent social difficulties.

The male sex bias in autism may in large part be a product of how common diagnostic tools measure traits in boys versus girls at a single point in time, according to a new study.