There are a variety of suicide interventions designed to improve social connection that could be adapted for autistic people, but first the field must work to dismantle the damaging and inaccurate notion that autistic people are uninterested in social interaction.

Early treatment with nutritional supplements and a high-protein diet forestalls some neurodevelopmental problems for children with BCKDK deficiency.

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, scientists find little to be excited about in research on biomarkers for neurodevelopmental conditions.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a reckoning, in which autism clinicians had to redefine best practices and expand how children are evaluated. The remote assessments they developed may help solve a persistent problem: the long wait families endure to get a diagnosis in the United States.

The dual diagnosis frequently co-occurs with anxiety, depression and developmental and language delays.

Elsevier’s retractions focus on peer review and conflicts of interest.

The measure breaks the behaviors down into eight distinct subdomains — categorization that could prove useful for clinical trials, its creator says.

A new gene therapy approach for epilepsy tamps down neural activity on demand.

New studies bolster the idea that zebrafish models can say something meaningful about social behavior in autism.

Brain scans of the hippocampus reveal autistic people who are at increased risk of cognitive problems as they get older.