Many people with autism experience a triad of trauma: neglect at home, abuse from trusted adults and bullying at school or work.

Understanding how gaze differs in autistic people may help improve their lives.

Studies of Rett syndrome hint at genes, cells and brain circuits that may be involved in autism — and may pave the way to treatments for both conditions.

The social brain has a sweet spot that activates when people look each other in the eyes but not when they look at eyes in a video.

Genetics may govern a person’s ability to pay attention to social cues.

Autistic people have trouble making facial expressions appropriate to the circumstances.

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.

The latest manual of international disease codes is out, a franchise claims to have an autism cure, and two reports diverge on the validity of the social-motivation hypothesis.

Two new parent questionnaires could help clinicians identify autism in babies and in members of racial or ethnic minority groups.

Communication problems have always been considered a core feature of autism. Yet there are substantial and wide-ranging differences in how people with autism communicate.