By Dr. Daniela Araujo Prince Charming is known in Spanish as Blue Prince, and so this story begins. It’s said that there was a Blue Prince. It’s said he was polite and had good manners. However, his days hadn’t been always simple. Since being a child he had to understand the gaudy colors in the play…

A trill of tweets this week talk about perspective-taking during conversation, watching hands during playtime and accounting for measurement bias during diagnosis. The post Community Newsletter: Fresh takes on theory-of-mind skills, evaluating joint attention, autism’s sex ratio appeared first on Sp…

By Zach Labbadia It goes without saying that the acting market is highly saturated, which makes it a very competitive creative profession. Besides connections and talent, to achieve any success you must have an identifiable brand or anything that would make you unique in the industry. Last year, whe…

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 20 June. The post Spotted around the web: Phelan-McDermid syndrome, autism screening in Sri Lanka and Brazil, cheaper DNA sequencing appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

Therapies that target the circuit could boost social activity, new findings suggest. The post Autism-linked mutation disrupts brain circuit to change social behavior appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

Siblings of autistic females are more likely to have autism than siblings of autistic males are, and mothers of autistic children carry more common, autism-linked variants than fathers do. The post Common inherited variants tied to autism show sex bias in families appeared first on Spectrum | Autism…

The male sex bias in autism may in large part be a product of how common diagnostic tools measure traits in boys versus girls at a single point in time, according to a new study. The post Autism’s sex bias disappears after tracking trajectories appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Sour…

Statistical modeling and machine learning helps blunt the bias in brain imaging studies that exclude young autistic children and those with prominent traits, a new study finds. The post Causal inference method mitigates motion bias in autism imaging studies appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Resear…

Even temporary bouts of too little non-REM sleep can lead to long-term changes in how the animals respond to certain social situations, new research suggests. The post Poor sleep shifts social circuit in mice appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

Microtia is a condition which causes the ear to remain small and undeveloped. People with this condition have received 3D printed ear implants made out of polymers but thanks to a new method created by New York based 3DBio Therapeutics, a recipient recently received a 3D printed ear implant made fro…

Researchers put new findings about COVID-19 and neurodevelopmental conditions in context, tweet about new ways to analyze cortical neuroanatomy and adapt “how it started, how it’s going.” The post Community Newsletter: COVID-19 commentary, cortical MAGICC, IACC Advances appeared fi…

I Can See You by Gregory Lawrence There is that man again. At the pub last night, he had mostly been throwing furtive glances at me when he thought I wasn’t looking. Now he’s at the end of my tram carriage. Craning his neck, as though he does not care about how conspicuous he is being in front of al…

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 13 June. The post Spotted around the web: Glutamate receptors, silent mutations, long-COVID risk appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News

The gene helps neurons exit the cell-maturation cycle during fetal brain development, a new study shows. But male and female mice respond differently to DDX3X loss. The post Mice without DDX3X are slow to grow neurons appeared first on Spectrum | Autism Research News. Source: Spectrum News