Spectrum: Autism Research News

Consuming Lactobacillus reuteri, a gut microbe found in yogurt and breast milk, may enhance social interactions in three mouse models of autism.

A variety of genetic risk factors for autism may disrupt some of the same processes in cells.

The proportion of studies that include people with a severe form of autism has fallen over the past three decades.

At a center in Lima, Peru, people with autism learn to identify their strengths and find jobs that play to those strengths.

Autistic people who have trouble speaking or moving often do poorly on standard tests of intelligence. Newer methods promise to uncover their abilities — and improve our understanding of autism itself.

The largest genetic analysis of postmortem brain tissue to date has yielded maps of when and where genes related to autism are turned on and off throughout life.

Nearly one in four men who have a daughter with Rett syndrome carry mutations linked to the condition in some of their sperm.

Autistic women’s activity in a ‘social’ brain region tracks with the extent to which they mask their autism.

The latest study to show that autistic children tend to be overweight suggests that the risk is greatest for those at the severe end of the spectrum.

Two studies published in the past two months provide new clues to when and how the cerebellum contributes to autism.