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.

A brain region that processes emotions tends to be smaller in children who have both autism and anxiety than in those who have autism alone.

Transcranial treatment may bolster memory in adults with autism, inflammatory molecule may alter an emotional brain region in newborns, and examining ants could yield insights into autism

Mice missing FMR1, the gene mutated in fragile X syndrome, have an atypical brain response to meeting an unfamiliar mouse.

Brain scans of sleeping children with autism reveal reduced synchrony between a brain region that processes emotions and structures involved in social communication.

Researchers have charted gene expression in the brains of rhesus macaques from before birth into adulthood.

Mice with a mutation in CHD8, the top autism gene, show no signs of any of the condition’s core features.

Restaurants can be stressful for my daughter Frances, who has autism, but her difficulties led me to try to better understand and treat her type of situational anxiety.

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.

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