Spectrum: Autism Research News

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, researchers upend early interventions and diagnostic boundaries.

Researchers and clinicians were quick to point out the flaws in the study, and a flood of work refuted it.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 3 April.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 27 March.

People whose brains look like those of people who carry autism-linked copy number variants also share markers of heart health.

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, Spectrum talks with a Nature editor about the journal’s move to publish more null results.

The map diagrams more than half a million neuronal connections in the first complete connectome of Drosophila and holds clues about which brain architectures best support learning.

The proteins are part of a newly discovered complex that mends genetic damage exclusively in neurons.

Researchers know little about the ways genetic variants affect development in the infant brain. Knickmeyer, who launched the Organization for Imaging Genomics in Infancy, has spent the past five years trying to close the gap.

FMR1 loss impairs sodium channels, hindering mouse neurons from generating the electrical signals needed to transmit information.