Spectrum’s team reported about 50 stories at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego. One big theme this year: how autism relates to bigger questions in neuroscience.

Children with autism may have increased blood levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, a protein that spurs the formation of neuronal connections.

A new study ties autism risk to a core team of proteins that facilitate neuronal signaling as an animal learns.

Mice with a genetic glitch in just one copy of SHANK3, a leading candidate gene for autism, show brain and behavioral features of the condition.

Contrary to some previous reports, microglia may not play a central role in initiating Rett syndrome.

A new imaging technique allows researchers to illuminate the junctions between neurons in a living person’s brain.

Researchers have charted gene expression in the brains of rhesus macaques from before birth into adulthood.

Genetic variants that impair a pathway that prunes neuronal connections may offer clues to autism.

A fusion of two proteins can silence the activity of specific neurons in the zebrafish spinal cord.

Cells derived from the skin of boys and men with autism share a host of unusual characteristics.