Charting the structure and function of the brain’s many circuits may unravel autism’s mysteries.
Register for the next Spectrum webinar, featuring Christine Wu Nordahl, who will discuss new ways to expand participation in autism brain-imaging studies.
Theory of mind difficulties are likely to be more central to autism than to attention deficit hyperactive disorder, whereas executive function problems are more often associated with the latter.
A new brain implant pumps chemical signals directly into a target region to ease seizure-like activity in mice.
Researchers have charted billions of synapses in the mouse brain and sorted them by type.
An electrical brain implant all but erased the obsessions that had consumed Becky Audette, years after her autism diagnosis. Could similar implants help other people with severe autism?
The brain’s immune cells, called microglia, function differently in male and female rodents. In people, a similar phenomenon may make male brains more vulnerable to autism.
Looking at the brain as a whole suggests that nudging flawed sets of neurons to collaborate better might alleviate autism traits.
How many cell types does the brain contain? Two new mouse studies bring scientists closer to the answer.
Injecting a virus toting snippets of RNA into the rodent brain enables researchers to express genes in specific neuron types.
David and Bernardo Sabatini, brothers born just a year and a half year apart, invent their way to answering big questions about autism.
