Opinion / Viewpoint
Errors of omission: Why we are deeply concerned about research on autism therapies
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Studies of autism treatments rarely report adverse events, and the scientists involved often fail to disclose their conflicts of interest.
Studies of autism treatments rarely report adverse events, and the scientists involved often fail to disclose their conflicts of interest.
To address racial disparities in autism diagnosis and outcomes, we need more Black autism researchers and clinicians. Here are some tips to help recruit and train them.
With pandemic restrictions lifting, many researchers are cautiously returning to work.
Spectrum reviewed more than 35,000 journal articles and nearly 6,700 grants to home in on a highly interconnected network of 150 scientists who are advancing autism research through collaboration.
Growing ranks of researchers on the spectrum are overcoming barriers — from neurotypical bias to sensory sensitivities — to shape autism science.
As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts researchers’ working lives, the academic journals that publish their work are adjusting too.
Over the past decade, biologists have increasingly been posting their research results on preprint servers, ahead of the results’ publication in traditional scientific journals.
For decades, the overwhelming majority of psychology research has examined people who live in the United States and other affluent Western countries — presenting a skewed view of the human mind.
Envisioned as bioRxiv’s clinical cousin, the new preprint server medRxiv hosts unpublished manuscripts describing original medical research.
Data analysis can improve the vetting of scientific papers, but first publishers must agree to make the information public.