The Brain

The largest genetic analysis of postmortem brain tissue to date has yielded maps of when and where genes related to autism are turned on and off throughout life.

A new method enables researchers to plot activity in the zebrafish brain’s system for spatial orientation and balance.

To understand another person’s point of view, children with autism may need to actively suppress their own.

A new microscope creates images of a mouse embryo as it grows from a ball of about 100 cells into a structure with a primitive heart and brain.

Neurons grown from human stem cells and grafted onto the brains of live mice mature and form connections like those in the fetal human brain.

Children who have repetitive behaviors, a core autism trait, may show particular patterns of brain activity as early as 1 year of age.

Autistic children aged 2 to 4 have about 15 percent more fluid between their skull and their brain than their typical peers do.

A new database displays gene-expression patterns in individual cells of the developing mouse cerebellum over time.

The autism gene TBR1 controls the expression of several other candidate genes that govern the architecture of the brain’s outer section.