Spectrum: Autism Research News

The gene, FOXP1, influences an animal’s motivation to listen to social communication, a new study suggests.

Neuronal alterations outside the brain may help to explain a host of the condition’s characteristic traits, including sensory changes, gut problems and motor differences.

New studies bolster the idea that zebrafish models can say something meaningful about social behavior in autism.

Brain scans of the hippocampus reveal autistic people who are at increased risk of cognitive problems as they get older.

A range of presentations at Neuroscience 2022 tie atypical social behavior to trouble discriminating between odors in the animals.

Rhythmic variations in the genes’ brain expression levels may help explain the sleep problems that often accompany the condition.

Data from two separate research teams suggest the cells are key to sensory hypersensitivity in fragile X syndrome.

Theofanopoulou shares how flamenco stepped up the pace of her social-communication research, and what’s behind the ‘no fear’ ethos in her new lab.

The method could boost reproducibility across brain imaging studies of autism.

Shifts in diagnostic criteria have only added to the condition’s bedeviling heterogeneity, an analysis of smiling, sitting, walking and other early milestones in more than 17,000 autistic children reveals.