Autism is diagnosed based on behaviors that vary greatly among individuals, often overlapping with other conditions, making accurate diagnosis challenging. The study focuses on a mouse model of ...

In the mouse model examined by Rumbaugh and his colleagues ... experience life if they have a genetic variant that leads to autism with intellectual disability." The recent paper by this team ...

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new study.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today (October 3), suggest that at least some of the genes in that region may play a role in a small percentage of autism ...

A mouse model of autism and postmortem brains of autistic individuals showed a lack of mature oligodendrocytes and less myelination than controls. Lisa Winter became social media editor for The ...

RIKEN neuroscientists found oxytocin-secreting neurons are selectively impaired in an autism mouse model, affecting social behavior. Stimulating these neurons postnatally restored oxytocin levels and ...