The measure breaks the behaviors down into eight distinct subdomains — categorization that could prove useful for clinical trials, its creator says.

A new gene therapy approach for epilepsy tamps down neural activity on demand.

New studies bolster the idea that zebrafish models can say something meaningful about social behavior in autism.

Brain scans of the hippocampus reveal autistic people who are at increased risk of cognitive problems as they get older.

A range of presentations at Neuroscience 2022 tie atypical social behavior to trouble discriminating between odors in the animals.

Scott describes his work on sound processing differences in the brains of zebrafish that model fragile X syndrome.

Data from two separate research teams suggest the cells are key to sensory hypersensitivity in fragile X syndrome.

My experience at the Autism-Europe International Congress — and as a parent of a child with profound autism — makes me more convinced than ever that we need to bifurcate the diagnosis of ‘autism spectrum disorder’ and add a new diagnosis of ‘profound autism’ to better serve this vulnerable population.

The competitive rower-turned-researcher spoke to Spectrum about how trying out for the U.S. national rowing team and a subsequent coaching position shaped her study of speech development.

Compared with their unaffected siblings and unrelated controls, children with autism harbor more copy number variants in genes that govern the circadian cycle or are associated with insomnia.