A new study found two recurring brain connectivity patterns in autism. One was linked to synapses and the other to immune ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that autism may include at least two biologically distinct subtypes, each marked by a different pattern of brain communication. By combining brain scans from nearly ...

A new study uses fMRI and mouse models to identify synaptic hypoconnectivity and immune hyperconnectivity autism subtypes.

Differences in how certain brain regions communicate with one another may help explain why individuals with higher levels of ...

Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people ...

There is new evidence that the cells responsible for communication in the brain may be structured differently in children with autism. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the ...

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that studying the autistic brain is essential, most people are unaware that brain ...

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and intellectual disability may influence early brain development. Their work helps ...

A growing body of evidence points to the cerebellum, long dismissed as a simple motor-coordination center, as a shared site of dysfunction in both autism spectrum disorder and Parkinson’s disease. A ...

Language can prove a bugaboo for children with autism. Now new research finds that it’s possible to use toddlers’ brain responses to words to predict their linguistic and cognitive skills down the ...