The rapid eye movement (REM) phase preserves newly acquired memories, but deeper non-REM sleep helps to adapt and update them, according to “heroic” day-long electrode recordings in rats.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 5 May.Source: Spectrum News

We need a new conceptual framework for understanding cognitive functions—particularly how globally distributed brain states are formed and maintained for hours. Source: Spectrum News

With a complete fly connectome in hand, researchers are taking the next step to model how brain circuits fuel function. Source: Spectrum News

The head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is ignoring decades of research findings.Source: Spectrum News

Last week, Tager-Flusberg formed the Coalition of Autism Scientists to push back on the U.S. government’s plans for autism research, as described by Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. The coalition already has 220 members. Source: Spectrum News

As the International Society for Autism Research’s annual meeting begins, its next president reflects on a brewing crisis.Source: Spectrum News

The analysis, which has not yet been peer reviewed, attributes the finding to misidentified immune cells instead.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 28 April.Source: Spectrum News

The tool provides a new way to characterize cells and study neuronal circuits.Source: Spectrum News

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

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