The findings contradict a previous study, whose design may have been biased to find an effect.

Implicit biases might be to blame, and the discrepancy persists across clinics, regardless of maternal education, family income and a child’s IQ score.

Even the best data practices and technology drop key variants in attempts to predict autism likelihood.

Scientists have at last filled in the missing gaps — an advance likely to inform every aspect of autism genetics research, Eichler says.

The young researcher from Uruguay uses her expertise in genetics — and discipline as a former athlete — to untangle sleep’s role in neurodevelopmental conditions, one experiment at a time.

Having a genetic predisposition to inflammation is linked to structural changes in brain regions implicated in neurodevelopmental conditions.

A new longitudinal study paints a favorable picture of the outcomes for many autistic adults in the city of Yokohama.

The “tortured phrases” — strangely worded paraphrases of established terms — may be the work of software that attempts to disguise plagiarism.

By coupling the tool — called SLEAP — with optogenetics, researchers can determine the neural circuits underlying social behaviors.

Previous Spectrum reporting called out this paper and several others — all on unrelated subjects — that mysteriously cite autism papers.