Methylation marks were thought to be permanent features of the genome, but a new study challenges that idea.

The more we find out about human genetics, the more valuable model organisms are likely to become, say autism researchers.  

Boys who have autism-like social deficits at 2 years of age retain about the same level of social impairment when they reach age 20.

Two new studies suggest that people with autism don’t all have trouble detecting the motion of people and animals. What they do struggle with is picking up social information from bodies in motion.

Researchers have optimized an early social screening questionnaire to distinguish autism from other developmental disabilities in preschool-aged children.

Neurons in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome make more connections during a critical period in development compared with controls, but are slower to respond to signals.

Half of behavioral neuroscience studies published in top-tier journals make a crucial statistical error.

Probiotic bacteria alleviate stress in healthy mice and modify the expression of receptors for a chemical messenger that inhibits signaling in the brain.

An adventure story about a boy with autism is making an appearance in a popular comic book.

A new atlas of gene expression patterns in the adult mouse brain shows how thousands of genes are turned on in specific layers of the cortex.