Spectrum: Autism Research News

Restricted interests and repetitive behaviors constitute one of two criteria that define autism in the diagnostic manual for psychiatry.

Older men and women are more likely than young ones to have a child with autism, but this connection is not straightforward.

A new analysis hints at the source of the rampant inconsistency among brain imaging studies in autism: significant differences among study sites.

Researchers have monitored the active genome in brain organoids over the course of nearly two years — and may find clues to autism’s roots.

Researchers have analyzed thousands of brain organoids derived from six autistic people, gaining the potential to rapidly screen drugs.

Turning down the expression of a gene linked to autism leaves zebra finches singing disorganized songs.

Researchers have used a new gene-editing technique to delete a segment of DNA associated with autism and schizophrenia from mouse brain cells.

Drug after drug has failed in clinical trials for fragile X syndrome. A new study provides an explanation — a decrease in the drugs’ effectiveness over time — and points to a new strategy that could circumvent this problem.

Studies of Rett syndrome hint at genes, cells and brain circuits that may be involved in autism — and may pave the way to treatments for both conditions.

Researchers have identified mutations within regulatory regions that are likely to contribute to autism, using a speedy system of DNA ‘barcodes.’