A new technique can stimulate and record activity across broad swaths of the monkey brain.

A brain imaging technique called magnetoencephalography characterizes not just what is happening in the brain, but also where and when, making it ideally suited for studying autism.

Certain regions of the brain’s bumpy shell become unusually thick and convoluted over time in children with autism.

Analyzing gene expression in a vision center of the mouse brain has revealed 49 different classes of cells.

A fluke finding hints that the growth of blood vessels in the brain runs amok in people with autism.

The brain’s sound-processing machinery may mature slowly in children with autism.

The first effort to sequence genes tied to autism in postmortem brain tissue reveals a range of harmful mutations in people with the condition.

Rare antibodies taken from the blood of women who have a child with autism cause brain structure changes and autism-like symptoms in male mice.

Delayed activation of brain areas governing speech could contribute to the language difficulties some people with autism experience.

People with autism show excessively synchronized activity between brain regions while conversing with others.