The Brain

Star-shaped cells called astrocytes may play a greater role in brain development than previously thought.

Many genes in a brain region implicated in autism change expression patterns in late fetal development, depending on differences in neighboring DNA.

Pupil response suggests autistic people have atypical activity in a part of the brain that regulates attention.

The mood-stabilizing drug lithium seems to ease repetitive behaviors seen in mice missing SHANK3, an autism gene.

A comprehensive atlas of gene expression by brain region could spur new research on autism.

Children who have autistic older siblings have bigger neural responses than controls do in the brain networks that process faces.

Several regions in the outer layer of the brain are thicker in children and young adults with autism than in their typical peers.

Areas of the brain involved in processing vision are more weakly connected to those that process sensory information in autistic children than in controls.

A new technique allows researchers to analyze raw data across multiple studies that use electroencephalography.

People with autism may have patterns of brain activity that are similar to those in typical people when interpreting social interactions.