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Brain imaging do-over offers clues to field’s replication problem

by  /  13 March 2023
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U.S. autism prevalence continues to rise as race and sex gaps shrink, new stats show

by  /  23 March 2023
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Cannabis compound rebalances signaling to quell seizures in mice

by  /  22 March 2023

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The promise of telehealth in autism diagnoses

by  /  15 February 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a reckoning, in which autism clinicians had to redefine best practices and expand how children are evaluated. The remote assessments they developed may help solve a persistent problem: the long wait families endure to get a diagnosis in the United States.

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