Nearly half of adults with autism will experience clinical depression in their lifetime, according to a new study.

Innovative approaches that reflect changes in social expectations can help girls with autism form rewarding relationships with their peers.

The male-dominated sex bias in autism is reversed in a related syndrome, a researcher’s gender could influence her study’s outcome, and an award-nominated ad featuring a young man with autism draws criticism.

Measures of adaptive functioning may better assess the ability of autistic people to meet daily demands than do intelligence tests.

Black parents are less likely than white parents to report concerns about autism features in their children, human brain organoids in rodent bodies raise ethical concerns, and science graduate programs in the United States have few American students.

Many children with autism do better in school than their intelligence scores would predict, and about 16 percent do worse.

Two new gadgets join the gene-editing toolbox, many children with autism get smarter with age, and a survey points to a research reset for Autism Speaks.

People with autism who have rare, damaging mutations tend to have low scores on intelligence tests.

Taking prenatal multivitamins may reduce the risk of having a child who has autism with intellectual disability, another vaccine-autism link study is being retracted, and schizophrenia sometimes accompanies autism.

Deletion of 16p11.2, a chromosomal region linked to autism, leads to the enlargement of certain brain structures, whereas duplication of the same region leads to structures that are unusually small.