Young adults with autism who have intense sensitivity to taste show increased activation in social areas of the brain when they taste something sweet.

The activity of the brain’s face detector, the fusiform gyrus, in response to faces is greater in adolescents with autism than it is in younger children with the condition.

A monkey study suggests facial recognition is not innate, a puzzle piece symbol carries negative connotations, and scientists are using a federal law to snoop on colleagues.

People with autism who are acutely sensitive to smells have unusually weak connections between a brain region that processes social stimuli and one that integrates sensory information.

Activity in the social brain circuit can distinguish a boy who has autism from a typically developing boy with 76 percent accuracy.

Researchers are homing in on the superior temporal sulcus, a groove in the brain that collects social information, as a key player in autism.

The fight over who holds the rights to CRISPR is heating up, we control our gut bacteria, and romance isn’t always easy when you have autism.

Lower activity in a key face processing region of the brain hints that people with autism could benefit from training to become ‘face experts.’

A large, multisite dataset of brain scans identifies autism with 60 percent accuracy, much lower than the numbers cited by single-site studies. The study, published 25 September in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, highlights the vast differences in equipment, quality and methods across sites.