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Spectrum Index: Self-harm hospitalizations, everolimus flops in phase 2 trial
This month’s newsletter also highlights deflated autism prevalence estimates from Shanghai, China.
Spectrum Index: Self-harm hospitalizations, everolimus flops in phase 2 trial
This month’s newsletter also highlights deflated autism prevalence estimates from Shanghai, China.
Spectrum Index: Dip in autism screening, null cancer risk, therapist surge
This month’s newsletter looks at a decline in well-child visits during the coronavirus pandemic, the autism-cancer connection and the sizeable fraction of autistic children who live in poverty.
Spectrum Index: Dip in autism screening, null cancer risk, therapist surge
This month’s newsletter looks at a decline in well-child visits during the coronavirus pandemic, the autism-cancer connection and the sizeable fraction of autistic children who live in poverty.
Spectrum Index: Rare genetic diagnoses, obesity odds, violence against children
This month’s newsletter looks at the minority of autistic people who have an identifiable genetic cause for their condition, and at the fraction of autistic children who are obese.
Spectrum Index: Rare genetic diagnoses, obesity odds, violence against children
This month’s newsletter looks at the minority of autistic people who have an identifiable genetic cause for their condition, and at the fraction of autistic children who are obese.
Spectrum Index: IQ deviations, rural disparities and underweight infants
This monthly newsletter offers quick statistics on the latest data-centric, autism research studies.
Spectrum Index: IQ deviations, rural disparities and underweight infants
This monthly newsletter offers quick statistics on the latest data-centric, autism research studies.
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Eighteen teams analyzed the same neurophysiology dataset—and got wildly different answers
The “Brainhack” hackathon revealed that disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.
Eighteen teams analyzed the same neurophysiology dataset—and got wildly different answers
The “Brainhack” hackathon revealed that disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.
‘Unbelievably beautiful’ evidence extends Nobel Prize-winning model of vision
Orientation tuning—the ability to distinguish a horizontal line from a vertical one or something in between—originates in the visual cortex, according to new mouse synapse imaging experiments.
‘Unbelievably beautiful’ evidence extends Nobel Prize-winning model of vision
Orientation tuning—the ability to distinguish a horizontal line from a vertical one or something in between—originates in the visual cortex, according to new mouse synapse imaging experiments.
Bringing basic biology back to INSAR
As the International Society for Autism Research has grown over the past two decades, basic science has become less central, Christine Wu Nordahl says. This year, she and other meeting organizers aimed to change that.
Bringing basic biology back to INSAR
As the International Society for Autism Research has grown over the past two decades, basic science has become less central, Christine Wu Nordahl says. This year, she and other meeting organizers aimed to change that.