By Syance I am Syance and I have synesthesia. The most common form of synesthesia includes colored hearing: sounds, music or voices seen as colors, numbers, and/or symbols. Many synesthetes report that they see such sounds internally, in “the mind’s eye.” Some synesthetes see visio…

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In 1961, the late psychiatrist Daniel Freedman made what would become one of the most replicated — and most mysterious — discoveries in the history of autism research. Comparing blood levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in 4 non-autistic and 23 autistic children, he found significantly higher l…

Loss of the gene KMT5B stunts growth in male mice and leads to social difficulties in female mice, a new study suggests. Mutations in KMT5B are strongly associated with intellectual disability and autism in people, according to work that began about five years ago. The new study is the first to inve…

"It may not be accurate to talk about autistic people as having an 'impairment' or 'deficit' in recognising emotion." The post People with Autism Can Read Facial Expressions Except for Angry Ones, Study Shows appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Living Positively Autistic By Becca Lory Hector Living in alignment is all about making choices that work with each other and with your inner spirit, or who you are at your core. If you are working toward a goal, making choices that are in alignment with that goal is the only way to get there.…

Autistic and non-autistic girls’ brains differ in activity in a way that autistic and non-autistic boys’ brains do not, according to a new study. This sex difference may stem from distinct patterns of gene expression during early development. The new findings lend support to the idea that autism has…

Cortney Lang is a professional newborn and family photographer based in Argyle, Texas. With almost 12 years of... The post Son With Autism Develops Stronger Bond With Mother Through New-Found Photography Hobby appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Token economies are used in many different environments. They’re typically simple to implement and achieve desired results for behavior change, especially in autism classrooms. Furthermore, there are tons of research on how to best use them. If you want to get the best results while simult…

A new iteration of a popular probe enables researchers to record activity at thousands of sites across the mouse brain and track the activity of individual neurons over months — providing long-term recording at an unprecedented scale. Scientists could use the probe to study mouse models of autism an…

By Kathy Crabbe I’ve been an artist forever! I try to paint every day because it brings me richness; of experience, emotion, intuition and yes, income too! I don’t necessarily choose what I’ll be painting, it chooses me! During Covid I only painted cute, cozy kittens on wood. Now I’m painting nude…

U.S. federal funding for autism research increased by more than $23 million from 2016 to 2018, according to the latest government report. But the increases lag behind the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee’s (IACC) goal of doubling the 2015 research budget by 2020. The committee is the federa…

Reaching out for help in case of emergency requires that we call 911, an option that doesn’t work for deaf and hard of hearing. Even though there are some states that recently introduced texting/SMS service to 911, it is not available everywhere. This is where Rescu could be helpful for the de…

Happy Memorial Day to readers in the United States — and welcome to Spectrum’s Community Newsletter. This week, high praise — and a hand-clap emoji — come from geneticist Kevin Mitchell (of Wiring the Brain fame) for a new-ish preprint from Jonathan Sebat’s lab at the University of California, San D…