Instead, neurons encode the position of sequential items in working memory based on when they fire during ongoing brain wave oscillations—a finding that challenges a long-standing theory.Source: Spectrum News

Shane Liddelow and his collaborators identified the factors that transform astrocytes from their helpful to harmful form. Their work is a great choice if you want to teach students about glial cell types, cell culture, gene expression or protein measurement.Source: Spectrum News

Ben Hogan, a certified prosthetist and orthotist, is tackling the global challenge of prosthetic limb accessibility by fabricating them from bicycle parts. Troubled by the World Health Organization’s finding that only 1 in 10 individuals needing a prosthetic receive one, Hogan developed a func…

This week’s article comes to us from Ash (Ashleigh) O’Connor, MEd (ABA), BCBA, CBA, BSP, Clinical Director and founder, Mosaic Early Intervention, and Executive Director David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D, Association for Science in Autism Treatment. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at…

Astrocytes serve as crucial mediators of neuromodulatory processes previously attributed to direct communication between neurons, four new studies show.Source: Spectrum News

The issue with the supplementary figures likely does not change the conclusions of the paper, according to an outside expert.Source: Spectrum News

Michaiel, a program officer at the Kavli Foundation, shares what it took to cultivate research on the relationship between climate change and the nervous system. Source: Spectrum News

Cyclic shifts in estradiol levels coincide with changes in dendritic spine density and the activity of place cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus, a new study shows. Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 23 June.Source: Spectrum News

After decades of debate, the region’s role is being rewritten. Rather than using sensory input to simply log key points in time and space, the hippocampus may serve to contextualize our experiences and memories—and ultimately make predictions about the future.Source: Spectrum News

Effectively teaching students how to employ AI in their writing assignments requires clear guidelines—and detailed, case-specific examples.Source: Spectrum News

His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication.Source: Spectrum News

Two of John H. Zhang’s papers have been retracted, 19 have corrections, and 27 have expressions of concern. Source: Spectrum News

People with the syndrome, caused by variants in the gene PTEN, often have autism or cancer, or both, but it depends on the genetic diversity encoded in the components of distinct cell signaling pathways, according to a new study. Source: Spectrum News