New thinking about repetitive behaviors suggests they provide stress relief and fun for autistic people; as such, these behaviors deserve careful management.

In this video, professors Sam Wang and Peter Tsai explain the role of the ‘little brain’ in cognition, social skills, emotion control and repetitive behaviors.

Associated primarily with its role in movement, the striatum may also influence the social difficulties of autistic people.

The mutation that causes Angelman syndrome makes neurons hyperexcitable, which may explain the frequent seizures that most people with the syndrome have.

For many people with autism, a good night’s sleep is an elusive thing.

A new technique lets researchers watch brain circuits as they’re being built, starting from the individual neurons birth.

A new mobile app enhances scientific images by displaying augmented-reality renderings of the complete data over printed figures.

Alysson Muotri aims to build a ‘thinking’ brain as a model for autism — even if his colleagues consider that work controversial.

The Story Collider partnered with Spectrum for a storytelling event about experiences with autism. The event took place 2 May at the Centre Phi in Montreal, to coincide with the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research.

A new magnetic resonance imaging machine has the power to reveal the brain’s structure and activity at unprecedented resolution.