After a brain transplant of reprogrammed human cells, the animals can for the first time recapitulate some neuronal changes seen in people with fragile X syndrome.

People with the autism-linked syndrome lack a protein implicated in several cancers, but it’s unclear whether — or how — they are protected from malignancies.

The results highlight the importance of subgrouping study participants based on their underlying genetics, the researchers say.

The talk of the Twittersphere turned around two influential neuroscience papers, plus a virtual trip to the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics.

The long-standing link between maternal infection during pregnancy and having a child with autism may reflect common genetic or environmental factors instead.

The technique involves editing the cellular instructions to make MECP2 protein and partially restores its levels in the brainstem.

Mood, anxiety, personality and eating disorders more commonly affect autistic people diagnosed in adulthood than those diagnosed in childhood.

Tickling our brains on Twitter this week were threads about helping neuroscientists learn the programming language Python, a study about autistic schoolchildren, and the possible root of modern humans’ brain power.

A well-studied brain response to sound appears earlier than usual in young children with autism.

Null and replicated results in this month’s newsletter tackle aging, a purported pathway for oxytocin’s effects on autistic people, and a possible autism biomarker.