Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a growing global concern, affecting approximately 2.8% of children in the United States and 0.7% in China. ASD is characterized by challenges in social interaction, ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

Brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit marked differences in the microstructure of white matter and functional ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to their neurotypical counterparts.

Brain scans may be able to detect autism in children as young as six months old, according to a first-of-its-kind study happening in Minnesota. “It was a really remarkable finding,” said Dr. Meghan ...

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum - an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limited evidence that it works.