New initiatives aim to increase brain donations for autism research and maximize what scientists can learn from these precious specimens.

Two researchers balk at talk that Wi-Fi and autism are linked, changes in an autism risk gene are tied to obsessive-compulsive traits in three species, and scientists plan to conduct a census of all of the brain’s cell types.

Two new resources catalog how genetic variants affect gene expression in the brain.

A new method offers an efficient way to examine gene expression in individual cells from postmortem brains.

A cannabis gel may ease features of fragile X syndrome, omega fatty acids show promise for autism in two trials, and oxytocin reinforces social behaviors through the brain’s reward pathway.

Some genes linked to autism regulate the production of proteins at neuronal junctions, suggesting that disrupted protein synthesis contributes to the condition.

Eric Courchesne is known for his findings on brain size in autism. But the roots of his long career trace back to his own childhood disability.

Some variants in mitochondrial DNA are more common than others in autism, cognitive therapy reduces anxiety for people on the spectrum, and maternal fever in the third trimester is tied to autism risk.

RNA segments that control when and where genes are expressed may be involved in autism.

The landscape of chemical modifications on the DNA of people with autism could reveal clues to the condition and lead to treatments.