A study published last week in JAMA Pediatrics suggests that autism is more common among people born in areas with high levels of lithium in drinking water, but it is too soon to say whether prenatal lithium exposure is truly a concern. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The mutation prevents certain amino acids from entering neurons, causing the cells to die early in development. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Social-media attention this week centered on two new studies of the brain’s memory hub: One employed virtual reality to probe how people use and update their cognitive maps, and the other tracked individual hippocampal neurons in mice as they learned. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 3 April. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The result raises hopes for an ongoing clinical trial in people — and offers fresh insight into the biology of imprinting and the UBE3A antisense transcript. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Most early-career researchers have to foot the bill for academic conferences and get reimbursed once they return. But not everyone can afford to wait for that payment. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The work identifies new varieties and may help researchers develop tools to genetically target specific classes of cells. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The changes may help explain the link between maternal infection and autism, though more research is needed. SourceSource: Spectrum News

By revealing differences between autistic and non-autistic children, it could help identify autism in babies. SourceSource: Spectrum News

A pair of neuroimaging-related studies — one about a framework for brain-wide association studies and another about a standardized tool to image rat brains — held researchers’ attention on social media this week. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Explore the people, the science and the challenges in autism research. SourceSource: Spectrum News

A machine-learning technique applied to brain imaging data appears to predict a person’s mix of verbal intelligence, social affect and repetitive behaviors. SourceSource: Spectrum News

In this inaugural episode, Lord discusses her entry into autism research, what the future of the field might look like, and how drama club saved her in high school. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 27 March. SourceSource: Spectrum News