Treatments

Researchers say they are unimpressed with a study that underpins a tech company’s new digital therapy for autism.

Two drugs that alter the activity of the hormone vasopressin seem to improve social communication in autistic people, but some experts question the findings.

Serotonin, the brain chemical best known for its link to depression, may also be involved in autism.

Researchers are edging closer to a therapy for Angelman syndrome — a condition related to autism — that involves injecting the gene-editing enzyme CRISPR into the fetal brain.

A much-touted behavioral therapy for autism, the Early Start Denver Model, may not be as effective as its creators had hoped.

An experimental compound that blocks two enzymes involved in gene expression improves social behavior in young mice.