Spectrum: Autism Research News

A brain region that orchestrates responses to social cues and aids decision-making may be off tempo in autism.

Damien Fair has a knack for transforming obstacles into opportunities, a trait that has brought trailblazing discoveries and admiration from colleagues.

Autistic people have trouble making facial expressions appropriate to the circumstances.

Lattice-like structures that surround neurons may be overly abundant — or scarce — in brain regions of three autism mouse models.

A monkey-sized jacket embedded with motion sensors — similar to technology used to animate creatures in movies — is helping researchers develop the common marmoset as a model for studying human social behavior.

A new technique transforms the previous broad-brush picture of a brain region into a pointillist masterpiece of neuronal subpopulations associated with specific activities.

A tiny fraction of the connections between brain regions can identify an individual.

An inexpensive, noninvasive method can track social brain development in infants in low-resource countries.

Tracking how roundworms crawl has enabled scientists to determine that many autism genes are involved in sensory processing and learning.

Autism results from an interplay between genetics and the environment, but it has been tough to nail down the environmental factors involved.