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

By Kris McElroy I wish I could say I go into Autism Awareness Month with joy and excitement. Instead when April 1 hits I see an intense ball of emotions behind my eyes swelling in my body as I look in the mirror and prepare to navigate the stereotypes, the stigma, the messages that have been used to…

This week’s newsletter looks at new paper alerts about neocortical development, double empathy and predicting ‘super responders,’ plus queries for the science Twitterverse. The post Community Newsletter: Tracking cellular origins, autism acceptance, social-communication gains appea…

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 18 April. The post Spotted around the web: Fragile X epigenetics, brain imaging issues, prenatal tests warning appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

Black and Hispanic people with autism in North Carolina are 15 and 37 percent less likely, respectively, to receive a Medicaid waiver than their white counterparts are. The post Access to Medicaid waivers varies with race, age, region appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectr…

According to a 2019 research paper, the number of worldwide upper limb amputees in that year was 3 million out of which 2.4 million live in developing countries. Depending on where one lives, getting a functional prosthetic limb could easily go into tens of thousands of dollars and these high costs …

Among people who carry the fragile X premutation, about 14 percent of boys and 5 percent of girls meet the criteria for autism, but the ‘broad autism phenotype’ may be far more common. The post A whisper of autism: Fragile X carriers and the autism phenotype appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Res…