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

Men and women with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune condition, are at increased risk of having a child with autism.

A trio of drugs eases repetitive behaviors in mice by activating a brain region involved in motor control.

Young adults with autism who have intense sensitivity to taste show increased activation in social areas of the brain when they taste something sweet.

Eye-tracking studies cement monkeys’ promise for studying autism and related conditions.

The drug mavoglurant has no effect on a brain circuit involved in social behavior in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome. That may explain its poor performance in people with the condition.

Sophisticated animal models — including a new rat model — are revealing how maternal antibodies contribute to autism risk.

A person’s ability to distinguish similar syllables by sight and sound correlates with how sensitive she is to sensory stimuli.

Mouse pups exposed to an immune response in the womb show autism-like behaviors and altered gene expression in brain cells called microglia.

Nonverbal children with autism don't show the typical wave of brain activity involved in linking objects with their names.