Charting the structure and function of the brain’s many circuits may unravel autism’s mysteries.
A drug that mimics the hormone vasopressin improves social skills in autistic people — but so does one that blocks vasopressin’s effects. How can seemingly opposing manipulations produce similar results?
We asked five autism researchers to weigh in on whether there is a unique brain signature for autism and, if so, how to identify it.
A novel cell culture device enables researchers to grow bundles of nerve fibers from stem cells, mimicking the tissue that connects distant parts of the brain.
Mice that lack a segment of chromosome 22 — a mutation associated with autism — have unusually sparse connections between brain regions.
A new method restores blood flow and some functions in pig brains four hours after the animals have died.
Mice colonized with gut microbes from some autistic boys show behaviors like those of the boys.
Autistic people have unusual responses to ‘affective touch,’ which conveys social and emotional information. Their responses may reveal how autism begins.
An array of minute beads enables researchers to build precise maps of gene expression in the brain.
Recent advances in technology allow researchers to measure RNA that is contained within the nucleus of a single brain cell.
A new technique leads to neuron cultures of consistent quality, enabling scientists to study how autism mutations alter neurons.
