Spectrum: Autism Research News

Jack Gilbert is teasing out how microbes transform their home environments, from the comfort of his own.

Children with social difficulties are more likely than those without to develop problems with eating by age 14.

Organizers of the International Society for Autism Research’s annual meeting will host digital offerings on 3 June.

Correcting an autism gene mutation in fetal mice lessens some autism-like behaviors after birth.

Star-shaped cells called astrocytes may play a greater role in brain development than previously thought.

Robert Schultz hopes to use technology to change how autism is studied, diagnosed and treated.

Pupil response suggests autistic people have atypical activity in a part of the brain that regulates attention.

Locked out of labs during the coronavirus pandemic, scientists are moving their investigations to virtual and online formats, a shift that may bring lasting changes to autism research.

Children who have autistic older siblings have bigger neural responses than controls do in the brain networks that process faces.

Areas of the brain involved in processing vision are more weakly connected to those that process sensory information in autistic children than in controls.