The levels of four chemicals in the brain may distinguish autism and vary with its severity, according to a new study.

A browser-based platform simulates functional neuronal circuits in the brain regions of several species.

The brains of some autistic children may not adapt to repeated touch or sound, even after several minutes.

Two new resources may aid the study of synapses, the junctions between neurons.

A new online tool maps the shape and location of neurons in the larval zebrafish brain.

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.