Autism

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Attention and IQ link; AUTS2-related syndrome; Glyx-13 for fragile X

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 24 February.

By Jill Adams
25 February 2025 | 1 min read
Cara Pugliese.

Autism program chief among National Institutes of Health layoffs

The termination is one of more than 1,000 employee cuts at the U.S. agency this week.

By Rachel Zamzow
21 February 2025 | 3 min read
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Familiar autism-linked genes emerge from first analysis of Latin American cohort

The findings, detailed in a January preprint, suggest autism’s fundamental biology is the same regardless of ancestry. But questions remain.

By Laura Dattaro
20 February 2025 | 5 min read
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Depression perception; MYT1L mice; brain signal variability

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 17 February.

By Jill Adams
18 February 2025 | 1 min read
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AI tool estimates social ability by analyzing speech

The system’s code and training data—drawn from one of the largest databases of speech recordings from autistic people—are openly available.

By Charles Q. Choi
13 February 2025 | 5 min read
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TSC2 gene; cortical thickness; long noncoding RNA

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 10 February.

By Jill Adams
11 February 2025 | 1 min read
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To accelerate the study of neurodevelopment, we need a transdiagnostic framework

Our tendency to focus on one condition at a time likely silos expertise and services—and obscures critical connections across diagnostic categories.

By Kelsie Boulton, Adam Guastella
6 February 2025 | 6 min read
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Olfaction; autism-linked genes in monkeys; eye movements

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 3 February.

By Jill Adams
4 February 2025 | 1 min read
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Stimulating the brain with Damien Fair

The MacArthur Foundation “genius” discusses his return to his home state of Minnesota and why it’s important to protect the developing brain.

By Brady Huggett
3 February 2025 | 68 min listen
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Roundup: The false association between vaccines and autism

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.

By The Transmitter
31 January 2025 | 1 min read

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The last two-author neuroscience paper?

Author lists on papers have ballooned, and it’s getting hard to discern contribution.

By Lydia Denworth
25 February 2025 | 3 min read
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Adapt or die: Safeguarding the future of diversity and inclusion funding in neuroscience

As diversity and inclusion funding initiatives crumble, we as neuroscientists need to change how we write grants, better communicate the economic benefits of our work and engage in constructive conflict when necessary.

By David Barker
25 February 2025 | 6 min read
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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies

Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

By Claudia López Lloreda
24 February 2025 | 4 min read