Girls with autism tend to start puberty earlier than their peers do, which may intensify their social difficulties and put them at an increased risk for bullying and mental health conditions such as depression.

A gene therapy for Angelman syndrome stands at the forefront of efforts to treat autism-linked conditions that stem from single genes.

Being bullied puts adolescents with autism at increased risk of suicide. Identifying and preventing bullying may help prevent suicides.

A new treatment curbs deadly seizures in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy.

Plugging a leaky mitochondrial membrane may help fragile X neurons to mature and function more efficiently.

Contrary to previous results, the blood pressure drug did not uniformly improve autism traits in a new clinical trial.

Mice missing the autism gene NLGN3 have altered social behaviors and brain responses to the hormone oxytocin, both of which improve after treatment with a drug that helps regulate protein production.

An experimental drug silences a DNA segment and seems to prevent seizures and death in a condition related to autism.

Like so many other events this year, autism’s biggest annual conference — the International Society for Autism Research meeting — was forced to go virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Grouping autistic people based on their social abilities may reveal subtypes of the condition.