INSAR 2022
Structural brain changes foretell language skills in autistic infants
Increased white-matter maturation tracks with stronger language abilities later in childhood, but the relationship with cortical thickness is less clear.
Spectrum: Autism Research News
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International Society for Autism Research 2022
INSAR 2022
Psychiatric conditions hospitalize almost one in three autistic women by age 25
The findings, based on Swedish national registry data, suggest a critical need to expand mental health services for autistic people.
INSAR 2022
Sleepy mice with autism-linked mutation struggle to fall asleep
Mice with a mutated copy of SHANK3 fail to establish normal sleep patterns during development.
INSAR 2022
Modified CRISPR tool boosts UBE3A levels in mice
A deactivated form of the gene editor restores UBE3A expression in mice and human neurons without cutting the genome. It may hold promise for future Angelman gene therapies.
May 2022
INSAR 2022
Researchers publish new dataset on minimally verbal autistic people
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the first repository of vocalizations from minimally verbal autistic people. Those with few or no spoken words still produce a range of phonemes, or units of sound, that may serve as developmental markers or intervention targets.
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INSAR 2022
Fever doesn’t ease challenging traits in most autistic children
The findings contradict a previous study, whose design may have been biased to find an effect.
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Autistic LGBTQ+ people report frequent mental health problems
The co-occurring conditions may stem from the heightened stress people in minority communities experience.
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Novel gene linked to brain size in autistic people
The gene, YTHDF2, may be one of several that contribute to an autism subtype marked by an unusually big brain.
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Clinicians lack confidence in diagnostic interviews with Black mothers
Implicit biases might be to blame, and the discrepancy persists across clinics, regardless of maternal education, family income and a child’s IQ score.
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Information loss may weaken autism genetic scores
Even the best data practices and technology drop key variants in attempts to predict autism likelihood.
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INSAR Community Newsletter: Tweets & murmurs from Day Three
We are covering the talks in Austin, Texas, this week, plus what the research community is talking about online, in the Lone Star Ballroom and around town.
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Organoids hint at origins of enlarged brains in autistic people
The size of the cerebral cortex seems to depend on when neural progenitor cells multiply or differentiate into glial cells and neurons.
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INSAR 2022
DDX3X loss affects male, female mouse neurons differently
The sex-specific effects may help elucidate why the small number of boys with DDX3X syndrome are born to unaffected mothers.