A new atlas provides the most in-depth look to date at the human brain.

Many parents resort to unproven — even dangerous — alternative treatments for their children’s autism. What drives them?

A university must pay the U.S. government $9.5 billion for false claims on federal grants, a mother explains her decision to donate her son’s brain to science, and investigators struggle to enroll families in autism research.

A potent chemical cocktail renders tissue transparent in a way that makes even buried brain structures visible.

The biggest bank of brain scans from people with autism just doubled in size, boosting the odds of spotting a signal in the noisy data.

Researchers have charted the human cerebral cortex in unprecedented detail, adding to what is known about the brain’s bumpy outer layer.

A new imaging technique allows researchers to illuminate the junctions between neurons in a living person’s brain.

Brain areas that spring to life when a person is at rest are less synchronized in girls with autism than in typical girls.

A bug in brain imaging software casts doubt on the results of some autism studies, but it’s way too soon to write off the powerful imaging technique.

Unusually thin nerve fibers in the brain may underlie the motor difficulties seen in children with Angelman syndrome, an autism-related condition.