This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Julie Ashkenazi, MS, BCBA, Synthesis Behavior, and Lisa Tereshko, PhD, BCBA-D, Endicott College. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free newsletter, Science in Autism Treatment, and li…

The system’s code and training data—drawn from one of the largest databases of speech recordings from autistic people—are openly available.Source: Spectrum News

“It’s hard to know what’s real,” says neuroscientist Josh Dubnau after a dizzying week in which diversity-related grant applications were pulled from study sections only to be reinstated five days later, among other reversals.Source: Spectrum News

From logical gates to grandmother cells, neuroscientists have employed many metaphors to explain single neuron function. Chklovskii makes the case that neurons are actually trying to control how their outputs affect the rest of the brain.Source: Spectrum News

Mice learn fastest and most reliably when they experience an increase in dopamine paired with an inhibition of serotonin in their nucleus accumbens, a new study shows, helping to resolve long-standing questions about the neuromodulators’ relationship.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 10 February.Source: Spectrum News

Mounting evidence illustrates how peripheral molecules can influence brain function, offering new therapeutic targets.Source: Spectrum News

In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with some of the women working to bolster their ranks in the field through storytelling podcasts, speaker repositories, social media networks and other community-based advocacy projects.Source: Spectrum News

By combining large language models with modular cognitive control architecture, Robert Yang and his collaborators have built agents that are capable of grounded reasoning at a linguistic level. Striking collective behaviors have emerged.Source: Spectrum News

The cells primarily rely on glucose—rather than lactate from astrocytes—to generate energy, according to recent findings in mice.Source: Spectrum News

Adaptive clothing allows older adults and disabled people to maintain their independence without sacrificing their fashion sense. Unlike regular clothes, adaptive clothing is much safer to use, simpler to wear and take off, and more convenient for caregivers, allowing them to do their jobs better…

The earliest studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were performed on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic still serve us as we tackle more sophisticated outputs?Source: Spectrum News

When the animals learn that a perceived threat is not dangerous, long-term activity changes in a part of the subthalamus suppress their instinctive fears.Source: Spectrum News

Our tendency to focus on one condition at a time likely silos expertise and services—and obscures critical connections across diagnostic categories.Source: Spectrum News