This poem was written about my recent stay in mental health facility where I was admitted due to a meltdown. Miranda Wallace Ireland Catch and Release I am autistic because when everyone else laughs and I don’t think it’s funny I don’t care to mimic you No monkey see, no monkey do   …

The ‘projectome’ charts axonal pathways between individual cells in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region implicated in autism. The post New atlas maps neuronal wiring in mouse brain appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

The “tortured phrases” — strangely worded paraphrases of established terms — may be the work of software that attempts to disguise plagiarism. The post ‘Tainted kids,’ other odd phrases cropping up in autism studies appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: S…

The Art of Autism is excited to announce the winners of our Women’s History Month Art Contest. Thank you to Art of Autism board member Kimberly Gerry-Tucker for curating this year’s exhibit. Thank you to our sponsor ArtLifting for providing gift certificates to winning entries. Thank …

If you are a bus rider, you have probably occasionally missed your bus because you were standing just a few steps away from the bus stop, the bus approached, the driver thought you weren’t going to get on, and they drove off! (it’s happened to me for sure!) For the visually impaired, this is a…

As May kicks off, we round up tweets about new appointments, FMRP and Alzheimer’s disease, disparities in autism diagnoses, and the power of genomics. The post Community Newsletter: Journal jobs, FMRP outside fragile X, convergent neuroscience appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News.…

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 25 April. The post Spotted around the web: Antipsychotics’ side effects, neural waves, caregiver trainings appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

Genetics research has largely failed to generate concrete benefits for autistic people, and its values and goals are due for reassessment, Tabor says. The post Ethical gaps in autism genetics: A conversation with Holly Tabor appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

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. The post <i>Spectrum</i> Index: Dip in autism screening, null cancer risk, therapist sur…

A new study is the first to link social, repetitive and motor behaviors to mutations in BMAL1, which regulates the body’s circadian rhythms. The post Mice missing key clock gene show autism-like traits appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

By: Cassie Hauschildt When a child is diagnosed with autism, there are a number of resources, therapies, and programs recommended  to parents. They are told all about ABA, ST, OT, PT, and FT, among others, receiving an alphabet soup of therapies. We explain the importance of early interv…

By coupling the tool — called SLEAP — with optogenetics, researchers can determine the neural circuits underlying social behaviors. The post Deep-learning tool tracks interacting animals in real time appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

Interneurons that fail to propagate electrical signals in mice that model Dravet syndrome may cause the animals, like people with the autism-linked condition, to die suddenly. The post Mini biopsies point to source of lethal seizures in model mice appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. S…

Previous Spectrum reporting called out this paper and several others — all on unrelated subjects — that mysteriously cite autism papers. The post Journal retracts paper on plant beauty that cited autism study appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News