Two studies published in the past two months provide new clues to when and how the cerebellum contributes to autism.

Triggering an immune defense in newborn male mice missing a copy of TSC2, a gene linked to autism, impairs the mice’s social memory.

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

Mice with the mutations linked to tuberous sclerosis make too little protein in their brains — a finding that contradicts a leading theory about the condition.

Despite social media rumors, a British children’s television show does not cause autism; childhood anesthesia is not tied to autism risk; and an adult on the spectrum reaches a haunting milestone

The drug rapamycin, which is in clinical trials as a treatment for tuberous sclerosis, may exacerbate features of fragile X syndrome, another condition related to autism.

Infants who have neurofibromatosis, a genetic condition linked to autism, show motor difficulties and communication delays at 10 months of age.

A drug called rapamycin prevents seizures in a mouse model of the autism-related condition tuberous sclerosis complex.

Sleep problems in autism may stem from the same biological changes that underlie the core features of the condition.

Some genes linked to autism regulate the production of proteins at neuronal junctions, suggesting that disrupted protein synthesis contributes to the condition.