New software transforms mouse brain scans into a virtual brain that scientists can manipulate.

A movement to ban valproate during pregnancy gains a foothold in France, people with auditory hallucinations seek to demedicalize the experience, and adults on the spectrum speak out.

A drug used to treat type 2 diabetes reverses behavioral and brain abnormalities in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome.

A Tampa clinic goes rogue with fecal transplants, autism’s genetic ancestry traces to our deep past, and the U.S. Supreme Court revives the travel ban.

Children with tuberous sclerosis who have seizures as infants are particularly likely to also have developmental delay and autism features.

Children with autism are more likely than their neurotypical peers to have any of a host of medical conditions.

The evidence linking autism and maternal infections grows, special neuron recipes are in development, a CRISPR pioneer envisions unicorns, and 23andMe delivers empathy data.

People with autism are at high risk of death from injury, China starts a clinical trial involving human embryonic stem cells, and individuals with autism have trouble seeing faces in food.

A drug used to treat excessive swelling seems to ease autism features in some children on the spectrum.

Removing the Rett syndrome gene, MeCP2, from distinct cells and brain regions reveals hidden features of the condition.