2025 Autism Research Year in Review – Scientific Progress During a Challenging Year

• By: | Autism Science Foundation
• December 30th, 2025
• autism heterogeneity and subtypes, brain development, co-occurring conditions, early diagnosis and intervention, gene-environment interactions, genetics, longitudinal developmental outcomes, neurobiology, personalized treatments, precision medicine, sex differences in autism, transdiagnostic traits
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2025 has been a monumentally challenging year for scientists in general and for autism researchers in particular, but despite drastic federal funding cuts, scientists continued to make progress toward understanding autism’s causes, improving diagnosis, and developing more effective treatments and...

Studies Map Gene Expression Across Brain Development

• By: Virginia Hughes SFARI.org
• January 1st, 2014
• autism genetics, brain development, fetal brain development, gene expression, genetic heterogeneity, glutamatergic neurons, neural networks, research, science, synapse function
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Now that genetic studies have implicated several hundred genes in autism, researchers are turning their attention to where and when in the healthy young brain these genes are expressed. The first two studies to tackle these questions appeared on November 21, 2013 in Cell. One report, led by...