Surplus of immune cells may mark brains of autistic people
Blood vessels in the brains of more than half of autistic people have an unusually large number of T cells.
Blood vessels in the brains of more than half of autistic people have an unusually large number of T cells.
This is part 1 of the story of one boy’s long journey to an autism diagnosis and therapy. Part 2 will track Owen’s progress later this year.
At least one in three autistic children has significant movement difficulties, according to a large study.
An experimental drug tamps down the expression of a gene duplicated in an autism-related condition and restores typical behavior in mice.
Neurons in a brain region called the thalamus may regulate social behavior and play a key role in autism.
A tiny chunk of the brain’s emotion enter, the amygdala, is enlarged in some autistic children; the larger this piece, the more anxious and depressed the child is likely to be.
Deleting an autism gene called TRIO derails neurons’ journey to their destination.
Loss of certain neurons on one side of the brain may explain why some autistic people are hypersensitive to touch.
Injecting the gene-editing tool CRISPR into the brains of mice may reverse the effects of an autism mutation at any age.
Mice missing a copy of CHD8, a top autism gene, show a signaling imbalance in their brains — a finding in line with a popular hypothesis about autism’s origins.