A potential new gene therapy delivered via a single injection mimics ratios of proteins normally found in cells.

People with autism have more mutations than others do in both mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA that affects mitochondrial function.

An atypical thalamus may underlie not only sensory issues in autism but also difficulties with social skills, attention and memory.

The work fills in gaps about how synapses change before and after birth — essential knowledge for understanding whether synapse development differs in autism.

These short reports from Spectrum journalists highlight some of the autism-related findings that caught our attention at the meeting this past week.

Animal models of autism rooted in exposure to maternal antibodies hint at different mechanisms.

Dysfunctional circuits and a rogue sodium channel in the brainstem may explain the disordered breathing pattern seen in children with Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a form of autism.

Compared with a previous mouse strain, a new model better reflects some of the difficulties that people with a rare autism-related syndrome experience, and may help identify biomarkers of the syndrome.

Social memory, which may be altered in autism, depends on serotonin-sensitive neurons that send signals from the medial septum to the hippocampus.