Spectrum: Autism Research News

Children who lose their autism diagnosis show distinct brain activity patterns that may reveal how treatment affected their developing brain.

Most children who have both autism and intellectual disability take their first steps on time or earlier than those with other conditions.

Autism may stem from faulty feedback loops in the brain, like an air conditioning system gone awry.

A new test claims to assess a child’s risk of autism based on abnormal folds in the placenta, but there is little evidence to support its use.

A new technique can stimulate and record activity across broad swaths of the monkey brain.

Women with autism show fewer repetitive behaviors than men with the condition on a standard diagnostic test, leading to possible underdiagnoses.

A widely used diagnostic test for autism can reliably distinguish the condition from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but not always.

A new tool paints real-time pictures of brain circuits that could reveal altered neuronal activity in mouse models of autism.

A new analysis of 22 studies points to a possible anatomical source for some of the language problems in autism.

Researchers have identified a key immune molecule in pregnant mice that produces autism-like behaviors in their pups.