Q&A

Shared sketch books chart a father-daughter relationship over time and provide a valuable outlet for self-regulating emotions.

Francis X. Shen, a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and the law, says scientists must include information about study participants’ income, education and race in their findings.

Jack Gilbert is teasing out how microbes transform their home environments, from the comfort of his own.

Robert Schultz hopes to use technology to change how autism is studied, diagnosed and treated.

Researchers use a variety of measures and definitions to characterize autistic children who speak few or no words.

Developmental pediatrician Watfa Al-Mamari is building an autism program in Oman from the ground up.

An award-winning photography series offers a close look at one autistic person coming of age in New York City.

After a decade of working with the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation, Geraldine Bliss has co-founded a new organization to develop therapies for the condition.

Khara Ramos explains how the Brain Initiative incorporates the emerging field of ‘neuroethics’ into the research it funds.

Molecular biologist Jonathan Mill is probing gene expression’s role in autism in uncharted territory — the fetal human brain.