A single seizure early in life leads to enduring behavioral problems, including diminished sociability, in mice.

A method that visualizes nascent and migrating neurons in the mouse brain may shed light on brain development in autistic people.

A new autism mouse model carries the same mutation in a gene called ADNP that is seen in autistic people.

Mouse models of two genetic conditions related to autism show abnormalities in their movement patterns.

Injecting cells called interneurons into the brains of a mouse model of autism restores typical social behavior. But the reason for this effect is a puzzle.

A new online resource aligns and improves the two most widely used mouse brain atlases.

Loss of certain neurons on one side of the brain may explain why some autistic people are hypersensitive to touch.

Mice missing a copy of CHD8, a top autism gene, show a signaling imbalance in their brains — a finding in line with a popular hypothesis about autism’s origins.

SETD5, a leading candidate for autism risk, may control thousands of genes by modifying a protein involved in packaging DNA.

A novel implant that delivers complex combinations of drugs and light to mouse brains may uncover the pathways that underlie repetitive behaviors in autistic people.