Spectrum spoke with three Black scientists about why they got into autism research, what keeps them excited about their work and how the field could become more diverse.

Connections between the cerebellum and brain networks do not seem to contribute substantially to the emergence of autism traits.

An fMRI scan can reconstruct a picture from a person’s brain activity, but that image changes depending on a person’s attention.

People who have large mutations associated with autism and schizophrenia share atypical patterns of brain connectivity, according to a new study, especially between areas that process sensory information.

Autistic men show a greater imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling in the brain than autistic women do, which could explain sex differences in ‘camouflaging.’

Autistic toddlers have unusually strong connections between sensory areas of the brain.

People with autism may have patterns of brain activity that are similar to those in typical people when interpreting social interactions.

A custom-built machine can scan the brains of awake mice and may improve our understanding of conditions such as autism.

Autism researchers who use brain scans may not be accounting for the head motion caused by study participants’ breathing.

A new analysis hints at the source of the rampant inconsistency among brain imaging studies in autism: significant differences among study sites.