Meet some of the people featured in the November 2018 issue of The Scientist.

In a new book, a vaccine researcher describes the scientific facts and personal anecdotes behind his family’s experience with autism and its comorbid disabilities.

Researchers parse genes linked with intellectual disability and autism from those tied to autism alone.

Contrary to prior evidence, a study finds receptor density is the same among people without and without the disorder, although GABA signaling still appears to be impaired.

Epidiolex, a cannabis-derived medicine for epilepsy, will prompt federal regulatory changes that could crack open access to study the plant.

Scientists are finding patterns in symptoms among a handful of people with mutations in HNRNPU.

Neurons of the embryonic subplate don’t die as scientists had thought.

In the largest-ever study of its kind, researchers combined genomic data from nearly 900,000 patients and healthy individuals to identify commonalities among 10 mental illnesses.

LabCorp might be able to charge a licensing fee to any scientists who wish to sequence the gene HOMER1 in people who may have autism.