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.

People whose pupils change more dramatically during a visual perception task tend to score higher on a self-reported scale of autistic traits.

Transcriptional profiling of post-mortem human brains reveals commonalities in the genes over- and under-expressed in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and major depression. 

After years of obscurity, strains of mice with mutations in particular genes are thrust to the fore of autism research.