Autism features vary considerably from one person to the next. One of the biggest challenges in autism research is to break down the autism spectrum into subtypes, each characterized by a distinct set of biological mechanisms that we can target with specific treatments. Autism’s strong heritability …

The fourth India International Deaf Film Festival is fast approaching! To be held in Bengaluru, India from December 28 – 30 of this year, the film festival was first started in 2010 to encourage deaf film makers to have a stronger presence in the world of film making. Entries for the film fest…

Everything changes after divorce, but these inspiring parents were determined to help hold their family together. Source: The Autism Site

Discussion on Twitter this week swirled around the evidence base for autism interventions, a new tool for visualizing cells, and the relationship between attention problems and repetitive movements. The post Community Newsletter: An evidence problem; cells’ interior design; repetitive movements appe…

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Dr. Karen Parenti, MS, PsyD CEO/Executive Director, and Heather Rothman, BS, LBS, Director of Day Services, Special Friends Foundation. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s fre…

A new web-based atlas maps the myriad contacts among human proteins1. The tool contains twice as many connections as the next-largest resource, and could help scientists better understand the protein networks involved in autism. Many proteins perform their functions with help from one or more partne…

Other firefighters called Jason offensive names and removed him from the emergency paging system.Source: The Autism Site

Social media in the autism space this week served up a helpful cheat sheet of standout research tweets to catch up on — plus an easier way to consume preprints. “Mixtures matter,” tweeted Giuseppe Testa, professor of molecular biology at Università Statale in Milan, Italy, about the effects of endoc…

Intelligence on the spectrum is a lot more complex than you might think.Source: The Autism Site

The number of top autism genes has risen from 65 to 102, based on an analysis of more than 35,000 sequences. And researchers are seeing the first hints of autism risk variants in the regions between genes. The new findings are the payoff from increasingly sophisticated analyses of a growing number o…

A new method offers an efficient way to examine gene expression in individual cells from postmortem brain tissue1. Scientists typically measure gene expression by looking at messenger RNA (mRNA), the intermediary between DNA and protein. Traditional methods for doing this require large batches of ce…

Microsoft recently announced Sign Language View – a new meeting experience that is meant to make remote video calls on Microsoft Teams a lot more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing users. This experience, currently in public preview, has added the following elements to make sure deaf and …

ADNP and SHANK3 proteins may bind together and alter a neuron’s internal scaffold, hinting at a mechanism that, when disrupted, may underlie several forms of autism. The post Two top autism-linked proteins connect to build cell ‘skeleton’ appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Sour…

The post Journal club: Rescue of social deficits in autism mouse model appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News