The City of Olathe has taken a significant step towards greater inclusivity by introducing a fleet of unique water wheelchairs at its aquatic facilities, including local pools and Lake Olathe. This initiative, made possible through a collaboration with Variety KC, a non-profit dedicated to providing…

Better technologies to stably monitor cell populations over long periods of time make it possible to study neural coding and dynamics in the human brain. Source: Spectrum News

Imagine a classroom where the fluid movements of sign language unlock the complex logic of code. This is the scene at Deaf-in-Tech in Abuja, Nigeria, where facilitator Victor Oricha, who is Deaf himself, guides students like Umamatu Jiddah through the intricacies of programming. In Nigeria’s r…

By Nahoma Presberg, MS BCBA NYS-LBA Behavior analysis can support the improvement of an individual’s quality of life in a wide variety of ways. We can teach language and functional skills as well as help clients find replacements and alternatives for unsafe behaviors. We can also help clients dev…

Evolutionarily newer regions sport mitochondria with a higher capacity for energy production than older regions, according to the first detailed map of the organelles in a tissue slice, adding to mounting evidence that the brain features a metabolic gradient.Source: Spectrum News

Aligning Research to Impact Autism, a new initiative funded by the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, wants to bring basic science discoveries to the clinic faster.Source: Spectrum News

A game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres’ lab completely transformed the way we study astrocytes and helped me build a career studying their reactive substates.Source: Spectrum News

He outlines why he thinks integrated information theory is unscientific and discusses how timing is a fundamental computation in brains.Source: Spectrum News

Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 21 April.Source: Spectrum News

But to fully grasp the tools’ potential, we need to better understand how electric and magnetic fields interact with the brain.Source: Spectrum News

A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.Source: Spectrum News

Person-to-person variability in brain activity might represent meaningful differences in cognitive processes, rather than random noise.Source: Spectrum News

Prescott and Ratté critique the clinical relevance of preclinical studies in the field and highlight areas for improvement. Source: Spectrum News