The Broad Institute can keep its CRISPR patents, Trump’s vaccine safety panel may be back on, and a drug discovered in fish eases seizures in children.

Some mutations in a gene called SCN2A make neurons less excitable and are linked to autism; others have the opposite effect and may cause seizures during infancy.

The brains of people with autism show a distinct molecular signature that reflects alterations in how genes are pieced together and expressed.

About one in four children with autism hit, scratch or otherwise hurt themselves, suggests an analysis of school and medical records for more than 8,000 children.

Mutations in a gene called SCN2A have opposite effects in autism and in epilepsy.

Given its reputation, the most shocking thing about electroconvulsive therapy might be how beneficial — and banal — it actually is.

A university must pay the U.S. government $9.5 billion for false claims on federal grants, a mother explains her decision to donate her son’s brain to science, and investigators struggle to enroll families in autism research.

Meet the backyard marijuana growers and home chemists who are rushing in where scientists fear to tread.

A study of more than 85,000 people with epilepsy and their immediate relatives suggests that epilepsy and autism share biological roots.