Treatments

A new type of speech therapy may improve the verbal abilities of children with autism who speak few or no words.

In autism research, as in other fields, small sample sizes can lead to false findings. The size of the sample needed for statistical significance depends on the type of study.

The accepted wisdom in autism research holds that early intervention offers the best promise for an autistic child’s well-being. But how effective are these therapies?

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has made it legal for doctors to prescribe an epilepsy drug derived from marijuana. But all other compounds derived from marijuana remain under tight restrictions.

A new brain implant pumps chemical signals directly into a target region to ease seizure-like activity in mice.

Compounds that mimic a cancer drug restore expression of the key gene mutated in Angelman syndrome, a condition related to autism.

The active ingredient in the drug popularly known as ecstasy eases social anxiety in people with autism.