Playing games designed to hone the ability to intuit others’ thoughts and feelings increases activity in regions of the social brain.

Many first-time sex offenders on the spectrum may not understand the laws they break. How should their crimes be treated?

In autism, a person’s brain may not form accurate predictions of imminent experiences, or even if it does, sensory input may override those predictions.

An evaluation of 11 tests of social skills has identified 8 that give credible results in autistic adults.

The brains of autistic children show few differences from those of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or even of controls.

To understand another person’s point of view, children with autism may need to actively suppress their own.

Theory of mind difficulties are likely to be more central to autism than to attention deficit hyperactive disorder, whereas executive function problems are more often associated with the latter.

Theory of mind develops surprisingly early, a book publisher doubles down in defense of a controversial author, and false vaccine news gets a correction.

Women with autism value friendships as much as their neurotypical peers do, but they often have difficulty forming and maintaining them.

In the Strange Stories Film Task, people interpret scenes in a video for white lies, jokes and irony.