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Diffusion tensor imaging lets us look into the microstructure of white matter in the brain.
Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging reveals the neural underpinnings of autism.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging helps us map activity in the brain.
A specific set of genes appear to operate abnormally during prenatal development in autism.
Defects in prenatal brain cell development may produce early brain overgrowth that causes autism.
Stem cells may shed light on the underlying genetic, molecular and neural mechanisms of the disorder.