Adding motor and sensory data boosts the accuracy of Research Domain Criteria — a broad research framework adopted by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health — for predicting autism.

Siblings of children with autism have motor difficulties similar to those in autistic children, but milder.

A new protocol enables researchers to rigorously test drugs for Angelman syndrome in mice.

A new type of speech therapy may improve the verbal abilities of children with autism who speak few or no words.

Children with autism are more likely to have both sleep problems and constipation than would be expected based on the prevalence of each of those conditions.

Children who have a rare extra copy of one segment on chromosome 15 have better cognitive abilities and daily living skills than those with a duplication that forms an extra chromosome.

The latest manual of international disease codes is out, a franchise claims to have an autism cure, and two reports diverge on the validity of the social-motivation hypothesis.

People with mutations in SHANK3 have milder features than do those missing a chunk of DNA that includes the gene.

An expanding arcade of video games takes aim at easing autism traits, from poor visual attention to problems with motor skills. But how useful — and fun — are these games, really?

Early features of other conditions may contribute to autism itself