Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.
It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...
A novel mathematical approach enables the identification of brain regions whose connectivity shifts in autism or aging, informing targeted brain stimulation therapies.
Biological heterogeneity in autism can illuminate precision psychiatry and improve insights from primate brain mapping data.
A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence infant brain growth, a trait associated with autism. Researchers have made ...
New research links the disorder to abnormal brain development. Nov. 8, 2011— -- A new, small study provides a tantalizing clue to the causes of autism, suggesting that children with the disorder ...
Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived - or "pass" - as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...