A new study pinpoints an autism hotspot in an information technology-rich region in the Netherlands.

A virtual reality system equipped with an eye-tracking device helps teenagers with autism learn to engage with others, according to a study published 23 May.

Video surveillance combined with computer algorithms could provide an objective method to monitor the success of autism interventions, according to a study published 3 May in the Journal of Medical Systems.

A review article published earlier this year in Progress in Brain Research suggests that scientists may have been too quick to explain away the results of eye-tracking studies.

Speech-generating devices are a beneficial intervention for people with autism who cannot speak or sign, according to two studies published in the past few months.

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee has released an updated list of priorities for government-funded autism research.

A new technique documents real-time action in neurons by harnessing the changes in light that take place when they fire.

As genetic testing becomes routine, people are likely to face difficult choices about parenthood.

Using tricks of genetic engineering, researchers in Taiwan have created the first comprehensive map of the myriad neuronal connections in the fruit fly brain. The findings appeared 11 January in Current Biology.

Children with autism play eagerly with robots — and their social interactions with people improve as a result.