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

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

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

Mice with one inactivated copy of CHD8, a top autism gene, show an unusually high degree of synchrony in neural activity between brain regions.

Brain networks in newborns may reflect the degree of inflammation their mothers experienced during pregnancy.

Part of the brain’s outer layer thins too quickly with age in boys with autism, but not in girls with the condition.

The brains of men with autism may have a mosaic of features from both genders.

The amygdala, a brain region that governs emotions, may be enlarged and overly connected in children with autism, but it shrinks as the children grow up.

An online software suite charts individual neurons and their connections across the mouse brain.

Autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder often coincide, but the search for common biological roots has turned up conflicting evidence.