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

In Chapter 6, “The Elephant’s Graveyard,” authors Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby discuss groundbreaking research into the psychology of forgetting.

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.

Human eye organoids could help scientists develop therapies for colorblindness.

In a condition called mechanical allodynia, when everyday activities exact misery, the same neurons that ordinarily transmit normal touch are involved in feelings of pain.

Expressions of pain and orgasm are distinguishable, study finds.

Researchers directly recorded neural activity in both sides of the brain’s cortex during the movement of only one arm in humans.

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

One variant limited the brain’s ability to use glucose.