Intentional interactions with autistic people led Sasson to refocus his research.

This week, we’re bringing you some labors of love: a thread lamenting the autism field’s focus on gene lists, a study introducing genetic diversity in mouse models, and long-awaited results from a biomarker study.

A delayed brain response to viewing faces may predict lags in social-skill development in autistic people.

Integrating genetic analyses into studies of babies’ brain development could help us understand how autism-related genes contribute to autism traits.

How autistic people look at a face may be linked more to alexithymia, a condition marked by difficulties recognizing one’s own emotions, than to autism.

Autistic boys and men are less attuned to social stimuli than autistic girls and women are, according to new unpublished work.

Researchers are studying how the intense passions of autistic people shape the brain, improve well-being and enhance learning.

Looking at eyes, noses and mouths may prompt slower recognition in the brains of autistic people than in those of non-autistic people.

A new eye-tracking study highlights how social cues shape attention differently in people with and without autism.

Neurotypical adults change how they view social scenes over time in a way that autistic adults do not, reflecting different underlying mechanisms of social attention.