The discovery could help clinicians diagnose children who carry mutations in the gene, called SCN2A, and gauge their responses to potential therapies.

Null and replicated results in this month’s newsletter tackle aging, a purported pathway for oxytocin’s effects on autistic people, and a possible autism biomarker.

The signaling molecule’s social role in the ‘little brain’ involves Purkinje neurons in the Crus I and Crus II regions, a new study reveals.

A new study is the first to link social, repetitive and motor behaviors to mutations in BMAL1, which regulates the body’s circadian rhythms.

The drug suppresses an overactive signaling pathway implicated in tuberous sclerosis complex.

Mutations in POGZ, a gene strongly linked to autism, lead to a signaling imbalance in multiple brain regions in mice, according to two new studies.

Long known as the director of movement, the cerebellum may also coordinate social and cognitive abilities, including those central to autism.

Despite social media rumors, a British children’s television show does not cause autism; childhood anesthesia is not tied to autism risk; and an adult on the spectrum reaches a haunting milestone

New evidence from both people and mice points to a part of the cerebellum that helps process social information as being critical in autism.

Researchers can coax human stem cells to grow into layered structures that mimic the brain’s center for motor control, the cerebellum.