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March 2023
MRI scan with a section enlarged to display the scan's grey-white boundary.

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

by  /  13 March 2023

Methodological choices and study-site artifacts confounded an attempt to replicate findings in support of an autism brain-imaging biomarker, according to new unpublished work.

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Many mouths making conversation, with speech bubbles in red and blue.

Community Newsletter: Two new mouse brain atlases, plus female mouse behavior

by  /  12 March 2023

Three murine studies — two of cell types in the mouse brain plus a look at behavioral sex differences — dominated researchers’ attention on Twitter this week.

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Still from research video displaying wiring map of a fruit fly's brain.

Wiring map reveals how larval fruit fly brain converts sensory signals to movement

by  /  9 March 2023

The map diagrams more than half a million neuronal connections in the first complete connectome of Drosophila and holds clues about which brain architectures best support learning.

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A group of doctors sit and talk in a hospital lounge.

Doctors with autism speak out against stigma

by ,  /  9 March 2023

Autistic clinicians have long hid their diagnosis from colleagues, but some are beginning to share their stories to ignite change.

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Spectrum Launch: How early-career researchers can use ChatGPT to boost productivity

by  /  9 March 2023

The new tool may pose challenges for the scientific community, but used wisely, it can help researchers save time and resources.

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Images of Marie-Eve Lefebvre and Punit Shah sitting at their laptops.

New journals seek to fill neurodiversity gap

by  /  8 March 2023

The two journals, although differing in initial support, both realized the need for a publication focused exclusively on the neurodiverse experience.

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Illustration of a person holding the end of a thread that has trapped them within concentric circles while another person picks up the other end of the thread and begins to follow it.

People who need people: Leveraging desire for connection to address suicide in autism

by  /  7 March 2023

There are a variety of suicide interventions designed to improve social connection that could be adapted for autistic people, but first the field must work to dismantle the damaging and inaccurate notion that autistic people are uninterested in social interaction.

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A grid of brain scans.

To repair DNA, neurons harness autism-linked proteins

by  /  6 March 2023

The proteins are part of a newly discovered complex that mends genetic damage exclusively in neurons.

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Community Newsletter: Registered reports; cerebellum genome; octopus brain waves

by  /  5 March 2023

The research community was abuzz this week with chatter about Nature’s new policy on registered reports, a 3D genome atlas of the cerebellum, and a study that measured brain activity in freely moving octopuses.

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Week of FebruaryFeb
27th
2023

Spotted around the web: Synaptic vesicle recycling; telehealth diagnoses; registered reports

by , ,  /  3 March 2023

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 27 February.

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