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.

Spectrum heads to Washington, D.C., to cover the annual Society for Neuroscience conference.

Television characters with autism look dramatically different from the majority of people who have the condition.

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.

Nine U.S. clinics are pooling their data to create a registry of people who have an extra copy of a region on chromosome 15 called 15q11-13, a genetic abnormality often found in people with autism.

Two researchers balk at talk that Wi-Fi and autism are linked, changes in an autism risk gene are tied to obsessive-compulsive traits in three species, and scientists plan to conduct a census of all of the brain’s cell types.

The longer a child receives applied behavioral analysis, the greater her gains in language, daily living and other skills.

Academic and social support can help students with autism thrive in institutions of higher education.

A mouse model of autism reveals sex differences in brain function and behavior, incontinence and autism often co-occur, and a new literature search engine summarizes neuroscience hits into interactive visuals.