Two-thirds of children diagnosed by age 2.5 improve by two or more points on autism severity scale; after this age, fewer than a quarter make similar improvement

Funding will allow huge ramp-up of project to improve diagnosis and treatment based on large database of Israeli children with autism

Children with autism appear to be more prone than others to a condition that skews lipid levels, scientist find after crunching millions of medical records

Ben-Gurion University researchers demonstrate that brain waves of children with autism are 'shallower' than those of typically developing children as they sleep