Spectrum spoke with three Black scientists about why they got into autism research, what keeps them excited about their work and how the field could become more diverse.

A new atlas lays bare how synapses, or the junctions between neurons, change from birth to old age in mice.

The mood-stabilizing drug lithium seems to ease repetitive behaviors seen in mice missing SHANK3, an autism gene.

David and Bernardo Sabatini, brothers born just a year and a half year apart, invent their way to answering big questions about autism.

Deleting one copy of a gene called MVP impairs the brain's ability to adapt to changes in the environment.

Male mice with a genetic variant tied to autism may have learning difficulties that females with the variant do not.