Spectrum: Autism Research News

Researchers have identified mutations within regulatory regions that are likely to contribute to autism, using a speedy system of DNA ‘barcodes.’

Marmosets exposed to a mock infection in the womb have altered vocal development and diminished social interest; exposed macaques show changes in brain structure and function.

Injecting cells called interneurons into the brains of a mouse model of autism restores typical social behavior. But the reason for this effect is a puzzle.

The social brain has a sweet spot that activates when people look each other in the eyes but not when they look at eyes in a video.

SETD5, a leading candidate for autism risk, may control thousands of genes by modifying a protein involved in packaging DNA.

A new study supports the view that songbirds offer a good model to study speech learning in autistic children.

The brain areas involved in mice’s ultrasonic vocalizations may not be the same as those that govern human speech.

A new system enables researchers to automatically track the social behavior of up to four mice for days at a time.

Less than 1 percent of young children in northern Vietnam have autism, but this prevalence is higher than in previous reports.

The signaling imbalance theory holds that the brains of autistic people are hyper-excitable because of either excess neuronal activity or weak brakes on that activity.