The brain’s system for sensing pleasure and reward shows unusual activation patterns and an atypical structure in people with autism.

Machine-learning holds the promise to help clinicians spot autism sooner, but technical and ethical obstacles remain.

Grouping people with autism based on their unique brain-activity ‘fingerprints’ may help to identify subtypes of the condition.

The brains of children with autism fold differently than those of typical peers, but the exact differences depend on location and age.

Shining laser light into mouse brains reveals chatter among separate sets of neurons, showing how the cells produce complex behaviors.

Autism and intelligence share genetic variants, researchers grow Neanderthal mini-brains and see overlap with autism, and maternal diabetes is an autism risk factor.

Many clinics offer neurofeedback as a therapy for autism, despite little scientific support for the technique.

Science teaches us that housing children in institution-like settings is likely to cause severe and permanent damage to their minds and bodies.

The latest manual of international disease codes is out, a franchise claims to have an autism cure, and two reports diverge on the validity of the social-motivation hypothesis.

Mice and people missing a copy of a chromosomal region called 16p11.2 show similar patterns of weak brain connections.