Pups born to mothers that experience low oxygen during sleep have overactive mTOR signaling, which has been linked to some forms of autism.

Activating certain receptors in the amygdala — a treatment that runs counter to a leading theory of what causes the condition — can reverse some traits in rats.

A new miniature iteration of a popular probe enables researchers to record activity at thousands of sites across the mouse brain and track the activity of individual neurons over months — providing long-term recording at an unprecedented scale.

Certain antibodies may shape neurodevelopment by attaching to and invading new neurons in the brain.

The investigational drug arbaclofen may right an imbalance between inhibitory and excitatory signaling in the animals’ brains.

A Hollywood-inspired video tool that captures movement in three dimensions over extended time periods shows that rats lacking the autism-linked gene FMR1 have different grooming patterns than controls do.

Young male rats can recognize rats they’ve recently met, whereas young females treat new acquaintances like strangers, research shows.

A new flexible electrode array can detect the activity of neurons in a rat’s brain at high resolution for more than a year.

Rats missing UBE3A, the gene mutated in people with Angelman syndrome, squeak frequently but tend not to be responsive to the play and squeaks of other rats.

Lovastatin, a drug that lowers cholesterol levels, prevents memory and learning problems in a rat model of fragile X syndrome.