When flies encounter a tasty smell, they stroll in and out of the odor plume to keep track of it, encoding a memory of the ...

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 7 September.

Dr. Kaiser is an Associate Research Scientist in the Yale Child Study Center. She earned her doctoral degree in Experimental Psychology at Rutgers University and completed her postdoctoral training in ...

Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.

Animal studies are no longer being phased out at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, but it’s unclear how long the ...

Daniel Levenstein explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such ...

The autism criteria in the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) lists sensory traits under the umbrella of restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs), ...

Mass-produced does not have to mean low quality. Your favorite clothes, dear reader, are made from mass-produced fabric, and you would not have clothes as nice if all fabric were hand-woven. Thanks to ...

Structure juncture: The subcellular localization of the autism-linked gene PTEN (far left) changes in neurons when the gene is bound to various fusion proteins. See also: “Phelan-McDermid syndrome” ...

Together, their work showed that neurons can synthesize proteins in dendrites and axons and at synapses, not only in the cell body, helping to clarify the mechanisms underlying brain plasticity and ...

When Yong-Hui Jiang and Jiangbing Zhou, two Yale University neuroscientists, received a $40 million commitment from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2023 to develop a technology to ...

A previously unrecognized population of fibroblasts seals off the base of the choroid plexus—the network of blood vessels and cerebrospinal-fluid-producing epithelial cells that line the ...