As we attempt to build autonomous artificial-intelligence systems, we're discovering that a capability we take for granted in animals may be much more complex than we imagined.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 3 February.Source: Spectrum News

5XFAD model mice that inherit two disease-related genes from their fathers have double the plaques seen in those with maternal inheritance, a new study shows.Source: Spectrum News

In his new book, published today, investigative journalist Charles Piller tells the story of the scientific misconduct that shook Alzheimer’s disease research to its core, and the neuroscientist who helped to expose it.Source: Spectrum News

The MacArthur Foundation “genius” discusses his return to his home state of Minnesota and why it’s important to protect the developing brain.Source: Spectrum News

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.Source: Spectrum News

Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.Source: Spectrum News

The neurons represent not only an animal’s place in space, but also the distinguishing features of its fellow bats, including their sex and social status.Source: Spectrum News

The resource profiles millions of single cells across the developing cortex, revealing when, where and how certain cell types emerge and illuminating possible origins of autism and other conditions. Source: Spectrum News

The library of regulatory-compliant animal procedures offers experimental standards and specific language that researchers can borrow for their own legal paperwork. Source: Spectrum News

Inspired by his own behavioral neuroscience research and the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Robbe makes the case that we don't have clocks in our brains but instead perceive time by way of our interactions with the world.Source: Spectrum News

A new Easterseals Disability Services multi-media report, Reimagining Hollywood: A New Lens on Disability Inclusion, provides a comprehensive understanding of how disability inclusion is currently viewed in entertainment and media. While there have been positive steps forward, new data underscores t…

To conduct scientifically accurate and socially responsible research, it is useful to think of “sex” as a complex, multifactorial and context-dependent variable.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 27 January.Source: Spectrum News