Autism prevalence plateaued for the years 2014 to 2016, a review finds no evidence that herbal therapies for autism work, and a panel of four proteins in blood may distinguish children with autism.

Scanning the brains of a single individual over months to years may illuminate daily fluctuations in activity relevant to conditions such as autism, says Russell Poldrack.

New evidence from both people and mice points to a part of the cerebellum that helps process social information as being critical in autism.

A pruning protein reshapes neurons, culture should be a consideration in trials of autism treatments, and another U.S. state adds autism to the list of indications for medical cannabis.

A software package identifies bundles of nerve fibers in brain-imaging data, revealing connections unique to people with autism.

The same techniques that generate images of smoke, clouds and fantastic beasts in movies can render neurons and brain structures in fine-grained detail.

The drug mavoglurant has no effect on a brain circuit involved in social behavior in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome. That may explain its poor performance in people with the condition.

Differences in sleep and circadian rhythm may distort the results of autism studies.

Children with autism show different patterns of connectivity than controls do in the brain stem regions associated with balance.

A new anatomical map of a mouse brain shows the precise position and structural detail of various brain regions.