We asked five autism researchers to weigh in on whether there is a unique brain signature for autism and, if so, how to identify it.

A new method for growing brain organoids allows them to survive for up to a year — more than four times as long as is possible with other methods.

Several of the brain’s responses to sound are sluggish in autistic children who speak few or no words, compared with those who are verbal.

The ‘extreme male brain’ theory suggests that autism is an exaggeration of systematic sex differences in ways of thinking.

A growing body of evidence suggests that autism involves atypical communication between brain regions, but how and where in the brain this plays out is unclear.

The International Society for Autism Research faces a thorny problem: how to please a diverse mix of attendees who have radically different goals.

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

Two imaging techniques together reveal architectural features of the brains of preterm infants.

Watch the complete replay of Evelina Fedorenko discussing language processing and development in autism.

The brains of people with autism have unusually strong connections in some regions and weak ones in others.