In celebration of Autism Acceptance Month, J.A. Tan is sharing these new works with viewers of the Art of Autism. By J.A. Tan “Work in Progress” series, 2022 I am working on this series that shows the many differences between and among people and the environment. I use different shapes to represent…

Welcome to April and #AutismAcceptanceMonth. The cover of Science on Friday hailed a milestone years in the making: The Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium has at last filled in nearly all of the gaps from the original Human Genome Project, adding about 200 megabases of genetic information, more than 1,…

Hello, and welcome to Spectrum Launch — where we bring you conversations and resources important to early-career autism researchers. Today we’re diving into discourse about postdoctoral salaries. Jennifer Silvers comes from a line of academic women, including her mother and maternal grandmother, who…

Happy World Autism Day! Throughout April (Autism Acceptance Month) The Art of Autism nonprofit will be sharing some of our favorite quotes on our Instagram and Facebook social media platforms. Please like our pages and join in the conversation. We encourage you to follow us and add your own favori…

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A new open-source algorithm stands to improve the reproducibility and depth of data collected from a marble-burying assay, which is commonly used to infer anxious or repetitive behaviors in autism mouse models. The tool automatically tracks a mouse’s movement, counts how many marbles it buries and r…

Happy Autism Acceptance Month. World Autism Awareness Day is Saturday, April 2! This month The Art of Autism looks at #ActuallyAutistic Instagram influencers you may want to follow. Do you know someone we should follow? Place your suggestions in the comments below. 1. Greta Thunberg Environmen…

Written By: Dana Reinecke, PhD, BCBA-D Two people examine some graphs together.  They discuss the trends and variability in one graph, and troubleshoot ways to improve the pattern so that the child engages in a higher rate of mands (requests for desired items), with the expectation that …

Being in an unfamiliar environment prompts social avoidance and increases repetitive behaviors in mice with two mutated copies of the autism-linked gene SHANK3, according to a new study — but not if the environment contains familiar objects or if the animals are raised in an enriched environment. Ce…

Welcome to Spectrum Index, a monthly newsletter that distills data from noteworthy autism studies into a series of quick statistics. Let us know what you think at niko@spectrumnews.org, and thanks for reading. 8: The percentage of participants in SPARK — a large genetic study of people with autism —…

The Art of Autism is collecting favorite quotes about autism from some of our favorite bloggers. Please share your own in the comments below. “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” – Dr. Stephen Shore. “What would happen if the…

A new probe enables researchers to monitor interactions among select neurons across the brain, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The tool may be useful for studying brain circuits in animal models of autism. Traditional fMRI records blood flow changes as an indirect measure of neur…

A gene not previously linked to autism alters the expression of other genes associated with the condition, according to a new analysis of DNA in the placenta. A placenta’s genome comes from the fetus and has a unique pattern of methylation, the suite of chemical tags called methyl groups that attach…

Lisa Croen’s career took a sharp left turn toward autism research about 30 years ago, when she was working as an epidemiologist at the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program. Until then, she had largely studied the prevalence of physical birth defects, such as spina bifida and cleft palate. But…