Amy Wetherby: Impatient for progress
A speech-language pathologist by training, Wetherby has spent more than four decades developing tools to help identify and treat autism early; now her work has taken on a more personal sense of urgency.
A speech-language pathologist by training, Wetherby has spent more than four decades developing tools to help identify and treat autism early; now her work has taken on a more personal sense of urgency.
With the help of a generous benefactor, autism research in Australia is gathering critical mass.
The mutation increases the activity of an autism-linked protein and leads to social difficulties and other behavioral differences in mice.
Researchers discussed a study of the integrated stress response in fragile X syndrome and a new how-to guide for quantitative bioimaging — plus more in this week’s Community Newsletter.
Here is a roundup of news and research spotted around the web for the week of 17 July.
Children with congenital heart disease have an increased likelihood of autism. Why?
A new technique used to create see-through rodents can help scientists analyze how the nervous system interacts with other body systems.
The inhibitory cells misfire and contribute to social difficulties in mice that model the syndrome.
The request is energizing scientists investigating autistic people who largely don’t communicate with spoken words.
This month’s issue of the Null and Noteworthy newsletter breaks down some negative results involving prenatal exposures, an experimental treatment for Angelman syndrome, and the role that age at autism diagnosis plays in subsequent outcomes, and more.