In this week’s Community Newsletter, we look at discussions about the relationship between autism and the gut microbiome, plus a new single-cell chromatin remodeling atlas.

Autism diagnoses in the United States now precede developmental services and interventions, according to a new study.

This edition of By the Numbers logs the continued underrepresentation of Black speakers at neuroscience meetings, mildly-effective cognitive behavioral therapy and early autism diagnoses.

An atypical thalamus may underlie not only sensory issues in autism but also difficulties with social skills, attention and memory.

Cortical organoids that contain non-neuronal brain cells called microglia may reflect human neurodevelopment more faithfully than those that don’t.

In this week’s Community Newsletter, we dive into two studies that look at how the autism research paradigm could become more inclusive.

The work fills in gaps about how synapses change before and after birth — essential knowledge for understanding whether synapse development differs in autism.

A MECP2 gene therapy for Rett syndrome eases repetitive behaviors, anxiety and hyperactivity in a mouse model of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome.

An online community is helping many new principal investigators through a tricky time, plus other resources for early-career autism researchers.

These short reports from Spectrum journalists highlight some of the autism-related findings that caught our attention at the meeting this past week.