The researchers attempted to retroactively identify signs of autism in people who died by suicide, but their analysis is not convincing.

Many autistic children experience language regression for about three months in early childhood, but this lapse does not appear to foretell future communication issues.

Sleep problems may contribute to or derive from autism traits — or both. After decades of work, researchers are beginning to uncover the biological connections between the two conditions, revealing new paths to potential treatments.

The brain region, which is involved in fear and emotion processing, develops differently in autistic children with anxiety than in those without anxiety or in non-autistic children; its development also depends on the type of anxiety a child experiences.

Just 30 percent of editors of neuroscience journals are women, according to a new study. For autism-specific journals, by comparison, women make up 48 percent of editors, a Spectrum analysis shows.

Mutations in the autism-linked gene PAX5 underlie a range of traits, including developmental delay, intellectual disability, seizures and autism.

Petrus de Vries is on a quest to outfit Africa, the continent of his birth, with trained autism researchers and service providers.

Only a quarter of more than 1,000 autism intervention studies published since 1990 report on participants’ races and ethnicities, and just one included a Native American participant.

The fact that autism seems to affect more boys than girls is often attributed to diagnostic gaps, but the skew remains largely unexplained. Some scientists are turning to basic biology for answers.

A modified version of a probe commonly used in animals detected neuronal activity across different cortical layers in three people undergoing brain surgery.