Novel sensors enable researchers to monitor the activity of two signaling chemicals in the brains of living fruit flies and mice.

In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration guaranteed an experimental autism drug a speedy review for approval, but some scientists are skeptical of the drug’s potential.

Male mice with a genetic variant tied to autism may have learning difficulties that females with the variant do not.

Having too many copies of an autism gene called UBE3A mutes a brain region that may mediate the satisfaction a person derives from social interactions.

A new method uses flashes of light to stimulate specific sets of neurons in monkey brains.

A new brain imaging system lets researchers eavesdrop on mouse neurons as the animals move around and interact with each other.

Experimental drugs can reverse the effects of some autism-linked mutations in the dopamine transporter, a protein that shuttles the chemical messenger dopamine into neurons. Researchers presented the unpublished findings in five posters yesterday at the 2014 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, D.C.