Women with autism value friendships as much as their neurotypical peers do, but they often have difficulty forming and maintaining them.

The reasons some people with autism don’t make eye contact may differ between childhood and adulthood.

The notion that people with autism lack empathy and cannot recognize other people’s feelings is wrong.

Watch the complete replay of Rebecca Saxe discussing methods for analyzing brain activity during social interactions, and their application in autism research.

A woman claims that a genetic test failed to flag her son’s deadly condition, a researcher wins a rare appeal of a rejected grant application, and a graduate student’s gadget could help people with autism to read emotions.

Elsa, the star of the movie “Frozen,” is the poster child for girls with autism.

Autism labels incite controversy, and a report exposes overmedication of people with autism.

The creators of CRISPR call for a ban on editing the human genome, and critics weigh in on a widely used autism therapy.

People with autism feel overly embarrassed for other people, offering a clue to why they struggle with empathy.

A computer game based on face recognition helps children with autism feign expressions more convincingly than before.