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.

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.

Techniques used in behavioral interventions could help scientists scan the brains of children who have both autism and intellectual disability.

People with autism show frequent swings in synchronized activity between brain regions, a finding that could explain inconsistencies across studies.

Activity in the social brain circuit can distinguish a boy who has autism from a typically developing boy with 76 percent accuracy.

A new algorithm relies on abilities rather than diagnoses to steer clinicians toward personalized treatments for autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

People with autism may use visual areas of the brain to process sounds, which could help explain why they have trouble with this task.

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.