The authors of a 2013 study that appeared to uncover a mechanism by which the immune system influences synapse development have retracted the paper after discovering errors and failing to replicate their findings. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, showed how astrocytes secrete an immune p…

Taking advantage of the abilities of machine learning, a group of bright high school students have created an app called “Atheia” that will not only help detect objects but also describe a scene just as a human would. The app strives to improve spatial awareness and safety for blind p…

Danny Jordan is a television producer and father of a child with an upper limb difference. Since there... The post Dad Creates Inclusive Children’s Book For Daughter With Disability And Others Like Her appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Ready for your weekly recap of autism research tweets? First up in this edition of Spectrum’s Community Newsletter, the cover of The Lancet on 15 January featured a quote from the journal’s recent commission on the future of autism care and clinical research. On this week’s cover, a quote fro…

By Steve Staniek I spent 40 years in Health Physics, protecting workers and the public against nuclear risks, and by the time I retired I was a stressed-out wreck. We moved to the country where I began to study shamanism as a path to healing. I took a couple of basic shamanic courses from FSS, and b…

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One paper is about the aesthetic beauty of plant landscapes. Another reviews the use of anesthetic drugs in cancer patients. A third aims to optimize how efficiently buses operate using deep learning. Yet they each cite studies on autism — including one in the International Journal of Environmental …

Autism is thought to arise during prenatal development, when the brain is spinning its web of excitatory and inhibitory neurons, the main signal-generating cell types in the cerebral cortex. Though this wiring process remains mysterious, one thing seemed certain after two decades of studies in mice:…

It’s 2022 and By the Numbers is back. Last week, we released the Autism Drug Trial Tracker, an interactive tool to explore hundreds of clinical trials for autism and related conditions. All the code and data are open source, and we hope it proves useful to the autism research community. We’ll update…

Black, Hispanic/Latino and Asian/Pacific Islander autistic people in the United States have higher odds of having co-occurring health conditions, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease or hypertension, compared with white autistic people, according to a new study. The same disparities exist in the…

Pregnant mice that mount an immune reaction have pups with autism-like traits and an increased susceptibility to gut inflammation, according to a new study. The results may help to explain why many autistic people have gastrointestinal issues, says study investigator Eunha Kim, a postdoctoral resear…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted ‘breakthrough device’ designation to a hair-based test designed to aid autism diagnosis. The acknowledgment shifts the test into a fast lane through the agency’s regulatory review process. The test, called StrandDx, analyzes the lev…

Spoilers ahead for the Netflix original film Don’t Look Up. by Allison Wall What’s that in the sky? Is it a bird? A plane? A planet-destroying comet? Oh. It’s ableism. One of Netflix’s original big movie hits over the 2021 winter holiday season was Don’t Look Up (directed and written by Adam McKay w…

Diego's latest project, the "Spectrum EP," is something he hopes can help other people understand what his life is like on a day-to-day basis as a person on the autism spectrum. The post DJ on the Autism Spectrum Uses Musical Mixes to Share His Unique Experience with Others appeared first on The Aut…