Spectrum: Autism Research News

A type of mutation long thought to be harmless has turned out to play an unexpected role in autism.

A sweeping study of military health records reveals that children who take drugs to ease autism features are at risk for obesity-related conditions.

A new method labels neurons with barcodes to deduce their routes through the brain.

A new study ties autism risk to a core team of proteins that facilitate neuronal signaling as an animal learns.

Dozens of small studies suggest that physical activity offers behavioral benefits for children with autism.

Cells derived from the dental pulp of children with Williams syndrome hint at a treatment approach for autism.

More than one-third of the spontaneous mutations linked to autism crop up in genomic segments that do not code for genes.

The biggest bank of brain scans from people with autism just doubled in size, boosting the odds of spotting a signal in the noisy data.

A new study reveals how chemicals in the newborn brain forge connections between neurons.

Children who have an older sibling with autism are 14 times more likely to have the condition than are those without a family history of the condition.