Data Reporter
Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky analyzes data and writes data-driven news stories for Spectrum.
Prior to joining the Spectrum team, she covered health, science and general news for the Daily Beast, NBC News MACH, Gothamist and other publications. She has an M.A. from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where she studied data journalism and health and science reporting.
So-called ‘baby sibs’ watch adults’ faces just as much as children without autistic siblings do, but they don’t understand spoken language as well.
More autistic women and girls report daily pain than do men and boys with the condition.
See autism research results distilled into simple visualizations, along with eye-opening statistics and datasets.
Applied behavior analysis is the most widely used therapy for autistic children in the United States, but some regions lack the staff needed to provide it.
About 1.8 percent of schoolchildren in England are autistic, and the prevalence is highest among Black children, at about 2.1 percent.
The customizable rig combines multimodal recording, onboard processing and neuronal manipulation to power more complex experiments.
The customizable rig combines multimodal recording, onboard processing and neuronal manipulation to power more complex experiments.
Michael Reimann explains how the shape of neurons puts strong constraints on how they are wired in a network, and how this affects their structure-function relationships.
Michael Reimann explains how the shape of neurons puts strong constraints on how they are wired in a network, and how this affects their structure-function relationships.
Dendrite-specific inhibition lets overlapping neuronal assemblies form across brain areas without erasing existing memories, a new modeling study suggests.
Dendrite-specific inhibition lets overlapping neuronal assemblies form across brain areas without erasing existing memories, a new modeling study suggests.