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The brain’s system for sensing pleasure and reward shows unusual activation patterns and an atypical structure in people with autism.

More than half of people on the spectrum have four to five other conditions. Which conditions, and how and when they appear, varies from one autistic person to the next.

Private equity firms have injected hundreds of millions of dollars into autism therapy companies — and researchers are hopeful this will widen autistic people’s access to care.

From an app to diagnose autism to a crowdsourced project to map its prevalence, Dennis Wall is brimming with ambitious ideas. But his execution of these ideas leaves something to be desired, his critics say.

The instruments clinicians use to diagnose depression in people with autism cannot capture its unique presentation in this group.

Science teaches us that housing children in institution-like settings is likely to cause severe and permanent damage to their minds and bodies.

A lack of training for first responders, combined with the communication difficulties of people with autism, can create dangerous misunderstandings.

Our concept of autism has evolved over the past 20 years, rendering redundant the diagnostic labels of Asperger syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified.