Spectrum: Autism Research News

Autistic women show unusually strong connections, and autistic men unusually weak ones, between two brain regions.

Spontaneous mutations that occur between genes may be as important in autism as those within genes.

A set of neurons involved in complex cognitive functions may play a central role in autism.

Adults with autism have a resting heartbeat that rarely varies in frequency, a tendency that may explain some aspects of the condition.

Clinicians can reliably diagnose autism roughly two years earlier than the typical age of diagnosis.

The ratio of autistic boys to girls is roughly the same among children with epilepsy, according to a new meta-analysis.

A person’s genetic makeup can ease or worsen the effect of mutations linked to autism.

Autistic infants as young as 4 months may have fewer verbal exchanges with their caregivers than their peers do.

A national survey that estimates autism prevalence includes too few black families to yield accurate data for that demographic.

Children with mutations either in CHD8 — a top autism gene — or in genes that CHD8 controls share similar characteristics.