Girls and boys with autism show different patterns of brain activity in response to sensory stimuli.

Virtual reality can help typical people experience sensory hypersensitivity and other perceptual differences that autistic individuals describe. Host Ben Kuebrich reports.

Researchers and autistic artists exploring virtual reality to study, treat and simulate autism traits.

The motion perception difficulties seen in people with fragile X syndrome, a leading cause of autism, may stem from a faulty visual circuit.

Many autism researchers express satisfaction with the similarities between the ICD-11 and the DSM-5. But some have raised concerns about ways in which the two diagnostic manuals appear to diverge.

A new assemblage of tools precisely gauges a baby’s biological response to sights, sounds and tactile stimuli all at once.

A protein proves crucial to spatial memory in mice, genes in the 16p11.2 chromosomal region interact in fruit flies’ eye development, and having more autism features tracks with decreased responsiveness to direct gaze.

People with autism use different brain regions than typical people do to distinguish between the scents of familiar and unfamiliar individuals.

An unusual brain response to sound may distinguish children with mutations in SCN2A, a leading candidate gene for autism.

Mice lacking CNTNAP2, a gene strongly linked to autism, are acutely sensitive to pain.