Experts from various fields should work with parents to develop a standardized questionnaire for gut problems in people with autism.

A novel take on a widely used test could help clinicians assess impulsivity in people with autism.

Many African children with autism are hidden away at home — sometimes tied up, almost always undiagnosed. Efforts to bring the condition into the open are only just beginning.

Starting next year, clinicians worldwide may be using a new, streamlined set of criteria to diagnose autism.

Adults who have characteristics of autism are about three times as likely as their peers to not identify as heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.

Anxiety may exacerbate social communication problems in children with autism — and not the other way around.

Children with autism do not show the burst of vocabulary growth that usually accompanies learning to walk.

A software package identifies bundles of nerve fibers in brain-imaging data, revealing connections unique to people with autism.

Deleting KCTD13, a gene in the autism risk region 16p11.2, has little effect on brain or head size in mice — contradicting results from a 2012 zebrafish study.

Young children with autism sustain injuries primarily because of co-occurring attention deficit.