Methodological choices and study-site artifacts confounded an attempt to replicate findings in support of an autism brain-imaging biomarker, according to new unpublished work.

Three murine studies — two of cell types in the mouse brain plus a look at behavioral sex differences — dominated researchers’ attention on Twitter this week.

The map diagrams more than half a million neuronal connections in the first complete connectome of Drosophila and holds clues about which brain architectures best support learning.

Autistic clinicians have long hid their diagnosis from colleagues, but some are beginning to share their stories to ignite change.

The new tool may pose challenges for the scientific community, but used wisely, it can help researchers save time and resources.

The two journals, although differing in initial support, both realized the need for a publication focused exclusively on the neurodiverse experience.

There are a variety of suicide interventions designed to improve social connection that could be adapted for autistic people, but first the field must work to dismantle the damaging and inaccurate notion that autistic people are uninterested in social interaction.

The proteins are part of a newly discovered complex that mends genetic damage exclusively in neurons.

The research community was abuzz this week with chatter about Nature’s new policy on registered reports, a 3D genome atlas of the cerebellum, and a study that measured brain activity in freely moving octopuses.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 27 February.