A new tool provides speedy analysis of gene expression in individual neurons from postmortem brain tissue.

Network analyses of gene expression patterns may point to key molecular pathways that autism alters and suggest new ways of treating the condition.

Brains from people with autism show patterns of gene expression similar to those from people with schizophrenia.

DNA from autism brains shows elevated levels of a certain type of chemical tag that influences gene expression compared with DNA from controls.

Genes that are expressed at higher levels in men’s brains than in women’s also tend to be enriched in the brains of people with autism.

A class of fungicides used on crops can produce changes in mouse brain cells that look similar to those seen in people with autism.

A widely used technique for identifying subtypes of neurons in the brain may be flawed, and may have provided incorrect tallies of a key neuron type in autism.

The brain enlargement seen in many children with autism may reveal hints about the condition’s causes.

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