A growing number of researchers work with people on the spectrum when designing their studies — sometimes with help from programs intended to boost such partnerships.

Adults on the spectrum explain the problem with eye contact, experts offer tips for students with autism considering college, and men with autism respond differently to the “smell of fear.”

After five days and more than 13,000 abstracts, the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, D.C., has drawn to a close.

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.

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

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