By Marina Magalhães Cardoso I was thinking about a consistent theme to write about. I glanced at my generous cup of cappuccino and thought: this object, filled with chocolate and coffee, might help me explain how I feel. Inclusion could be as delightful and homogeneous as this liquid, don’t you thin…

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 2 December.Source: Spectrum News

The new type of leptin-sensitive cells curb hunger quickly—adding to an increasingly complex picture of brain circuits that control feeding behaviors. Source: Spectrum News

A growing body of papers on systems neuroscience and on giant simulations of neural circuits involves data beyond the point that anyone can reasonably understand end to end. Looking ahead, “paper-bots” could solve that problem. Source: Spectrum News

This paper defined key rules of epigenomic regulation and shaped how I study chromatin plasticity as a mechanism for experience-dependent changes in the brain.Source: Spectrum News

The incident highlights that viral vectors can trigger deadly immune responses even when delivered directly to the nervous system. Source: Spectrum News

By Ron Sandison September 23, 1936 – October 25, 2024 “My purpose in life is to share the stories and art of people with autism and bring hope to parents who often feel devastated by the diagnosis of autism.” Dr. Laurence A. Becker, film producer of Fierce, Love and Art and With Eyes Wide Open…

Inhaling the hormone did not increase aggression in unsociable rhesus macaques and appears to help the animals remember faces and reciprocate friendly behaviors.Source: Spectrum News

Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms? Akhlaghpour describes how natural universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 25 November.Source: Spectrum News

An exponential growth in data size presents neuroscientists with a significant challenge: Should we be keeping all raw data or focusing on processed datasets? I asked experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts.Source: Spectrum News

The director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health calls BRAIN a “high priority” but acknowledges that difficult decisions lie ahead if federal budgets remain flat.Source: Spectrum News

Daily neuroscience-related posts on the social-media platform this week have increased more than 400 percent, on average, compared with October.Source: Spectrum News

By Kadin McElwain Last month, after my usual morning routine, I had to sit down with my family and have breakfast. That morning, we all had some healthy protein pancakes, made with whole oats. I’m not the biggest fan of oats, nuts, peanut butter, and the like, so I was a bit hesitant to eat the meal…