Researchers have built a tablet-based tool that uses machine learning to make screening for autism easy and efficient.

A small wristband gives caregivers a one-minute warning that an individual with autism is about to become aggressive toward himself or others.

A new law’s increased protections on privacy are likely to make research projects involving big data less efficient, more complex and more difficult to reproduce.

A new neuroimaging device that is worn like a helmet enables researchers to map the functional activity of a person’s brain as she moves her head.

A checklist for fragile X syndrome could help identify people with the condition in low-resource settings, France unveils a plan for early diagnosis and education of children with autism, and virally inserted ‘bar codes’ help track individual neurons.

Modified versions of molecules found in fireflies make brain cells glow so brightly they are visible from outside the body.

Microscopic silicon wires could enable scientists to excite neurons with light without first inserting genes into them.

Two new techniques could help reveal the molecular basis of conditions such as autism.

Theory of mind develops surprisingly early, a book publisher doubles down in defense of a controversial author, and false vaccine news gets a correction.

Neuroscientists are sounding the alarm about ‘pseudoreplication,’ a widespread practice that studs the literature with false results.