Signs & Symptoms

More autistic women and girls report daily pain than do men and boys with the condition.

Autistic people with at least one sibling make greater gains in adaptive functioning than their only-child counterparts do.

Deleting the autism-linked gene CHD8 from specific cells in the cerebellum, a brain region important for movement, leads to motor deficits but does not alter social behaviors in mice.

A mobile phone app that tracks a toddler’s gaze as she watches short videos can distinguish between children who later receive an autism diagnosis and those who do not according to a new study.

Autistic children are up to four times as likely as their non-autistic peers to have digestive problems, and several small studies show they may also have atypical microbial communities living in their guts.

Fruit flies with low expression of a gene linked to neurodevelopment have disrupted sleep, poor memory and altered social behavior.

The pace of fetal head growth is associated with behavioral outcomes two years later, according to a new study.

Many autistic children show continuous improvement in trait severity until they are school-age, at which point progress often levels off.

Autistic children with sensory issues show more intense physiological reactions to unpleasant sounds and other sensations than their non-autistic peers do, a new study shows.