Protecting the privacy of autistic people and their families faces new challenges in the era of big data.

Conversations between an autistic and a typical person involve less smiling and more mismatched facial expressions than do interactions between two typical people.

A pair of tools that gauge social abilities in rhesus macaques may help researchers study autism-like behaviors in monkeys.

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

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

Autistic infants as young as 6 months display subtle signs of the condition, according to a study of visual attention.

Autism is unusually common among people with congenital blindness, in part because the ability to see drives much of brain development.

Researchers have created an animated monkey avatar that makes realistic facial expressions — and that may yield insight into how autistic people interpret facial expressions.

The social brain has a sweet spot that activates when people look each other in the eyes but not when they look at eyes in a video.

Researchers say they are unimpressed with a study that underpins a tech company’s new digital therapy for autism.