Community newsletter: All about SfN Global Connectome
We dove into what people on social media thought about the SfN Global Connectome 2021 conference — and its virtual format.
Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome 2021
We dove into what people on social media thought about the SfN Global Connectome 2021 conference — and its virtual format.
Participants video chatted and tweeted their way through the Society for Neuroscience’s three-day virtual conference this week.
Autistic children may have a harder time catching a ball than non-autistic children do, possibly because they are less able to predict its trajectory.
Children with autism may have a subtly different set of bacteria in their gut than their non-autistic siblings do.
Cells with excess UBE3A, an autism-linked protein, have atypical firing properties that can be corrected by limiting the protein’s levels, according to new research.
Sensory problems in people with fragile X syndrome may stem from hyperactive neurons, a mouse model study suggests.
Female mice missing a copy of the autism-linked gene MECP2 in a specific set of inhibitory neurons have a hard time heeding pups’ calls and herding litters.
Two unpublished studies detail improved techniques for delivering gene therapies to the brain.
Children with dup15q syndrome may have telltale patterns of brain activity during sleep and get less non-REM sleep than neurotypical children do.
Mutations in two genes linked to autism and intellectual disability boost the immune response and cause synapse dysfunction.