Watch the complete replay of Shafali Jeste discussing her work investigating brain structure and function in infants at high risk for autism. 

Children with autism typically have four or five other conditions, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, that can affect when they are diagnosed.

Communication problems have always been considered a core feature of autism. Yet there are substantial and wide-ranging differences in how people with autism communicate.

People on the spectrum often have subtle problems using language or making facial expressions. Pinpointing where those difficulties originate may help ease their social communication.

A diagnosis of social communication disorder only keeps people from a community and resources they desperately want and need.

Boosting the activity of a class of neurons that dampen brain signals eases social problems in a mouse model of autism.

An unusual brain response to sound may distinguish children with mutations in SCN2A, a leading candidate gene for autism.

Girls with autism may have less severe restricted and repetitive behaviors than do boys on the spectrum.

Mice lacking CNTNAP2, a gene strongly linked to autism, are acutely sensitive to pain.

Mice missing TAOK2, a gene in a segment of chromosome 16 linked to autism, have big brains, immature neuronal junctions and asocial behavior.