Some women who have children with autism look in the mirror, an accounting firm predicts profit from employees on the spectrum, and 2016 was a slow year for drug approvals.
About one in four children with autism hit, scratch or otherwise hurt themselves, suggests an analysis of school and medical records for more than 8,000 children.
Instead of simply listing sex differences in the brain, researchers should consider how sex interacts with other factors to affect the brain, Joel says.
Our picks for the top 10 papers of the year highlight leaps in our understanding of autism, as well as lingering gaps.
Three studies suggest that microglia, the brain’s immune cells, join forces with neurons in a sex-specific manner.
New recommendations urge clinicians to screen teenagers for autism when they seek treatment at gender clinics, and evaluate those with autism for gender concerns.
Parents of girls with autism are significantly less likely than those of boys with the condition to voice concerns about their child’s social behavior.
A new study shows that women with autism are continually misunderstood, work to camouflage their true selves and face a high risk of sexual abuse.
More than one-third of the spontaneous mutations linked to autism crop up in genomic segments that do not code for genes.
The biggest bank of brain scans from people with autism just doubled in size, boosting the odds of spotting a signal in the noisy data.