Studying the visual system could help scientists understand how autism alters neural functioning in the brain.

On Cayo Santiago island, scientists track the alliances and power struggles of a colony of feral monkeys — collecting data to generate new insights into the social challenges that people with autism face.

Identical twins, who have virtually the same genetic material, show highly similar patterns of eye movements when looking at faces, suggesting that social gaze is hardwired.

Meeting people with autism can give scientists new ideas and the motivation to pursue long-term studies.

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.

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

Finding biomarkers for different forms of autism may lead to more effective treatments for each.

Infant girls at risk for autism pay more attention to social cues in faces than do boys at the same risk and low-risk infants.

An unprecedented look at the activity of 223 individual neurons in the amygdala calls into question the longstanding idea that the region recognizes eye contact.

The infamous ‘impact factor’ does not capture a study’s true influence, an ambitious baby study halts eight months in, and a ‘spectrum’ may not be the best model for autism.