Inflammation may be a strong contender for the connection between mom’s weight and children’s neurodevelopment, according to lab studies on animals.

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

Researchers map learning-induced chromatin alterations in mouse brain cells, and find that many affect autism-associated genes.

Responses to compounds in human sweat may help explain why people with autism spectrum disorder tend to struggle with social cues.

The cells are crucial to detecting emphasis, sarcasm, and uptalk in human conversation.

A child neurologist, Isabelle Rapin popularized the notion that autism was part of a spectrum of disorders.

Scientists provide evidence that blood-flow patterns in six-month-old babies’ brains can accurately predict cognitive and behavioral markers of autism spectrum disorder two years later.  

A computer algorithm can identify the brains of autism patients with moderate accuracy based on scans taken at six months and one year of age.

Studying savant-like behaviors in birds could help researchers better understand autism spectrum disorders.