Hearing difficulties and autism often overlap, exacerbating autism traits and complicating diagnoses.

Like so many other events this year, autism’s biggest annual conference — the International Society for Autism Research meeting — was forced to go virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Babies with telltale patterns of electrical activity in the brain have pronounced autism traits as toddlers.

Children who have autistic older siblings have bigger neural responses than controls do in the brain networks that process faces.

A new technique allows researchers to analyze raw data across multiple studies that use electroencephalography.

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union would endanger continent-wide collaborations.

People with autism process the pitch and emotional tone in speech differently than their neurotypical peers — which may make it harder for them to pick up on nuances of social communication.

Brain activity patterns in the first year of life may predict autism in infants at high risk for the condition.

Tuberous sclerosis provides a unique opportunity to understand autism because about half of people with that single-gene condition also have autism.

Certain patterns of electrical activity in the brain may signal autism in children with tuberous sclerosis complex, a related genetic condition.