Probing parenting; connectome conference; women at the bench
A grant extends a study on parenting children with fragile X syndrome, the Human Connectome Project progresses, and women scientists play the role of experimenter in published work.
From funding decisions to scientific fraud, a wide range of societal factors shape autism research.
A grant extends a study on parenting children with fragile X syndrome, the Human Connectome Project progresses, and women scientists play the role of experimenter in published work.
Autism researchers are leading the charge for open sharing of results before publication in peer-reviewed journals.
A new blood test could personalize depression treatment, a journalist dissects the demise of a large children’s study, and the National Institutes of Health budget may grow by $2 billion.
A training program leads physicians to screen more children for autism, psychotherapists may discriminate against the working class, and a lack of federal funding leaves children with autism underserved.
Clinicians can use play to deliver therapies that could improve a child’s social skills, language and certain cognitive capacities.
Proposed changes to federal ethics rules spark concerns among researchers, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may be different in adults, and an artist plans to print a three-dimensional hand using stem cells.
The media offers clarity on prenatal folate levels and autism, early-career women scientists make less than their male counterparts, and states grapple with what to do with babies’ blood.
Researchers, advocates and others from the autism community came together for the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research in Baltimore.
Scientists give their perspectives on work presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research.
Clinicians are underdiagnosing autism in children from low-income families and minority groups — setting back their potential to benefit from therapy.