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From funding decisions to scientific fraud, a wide range of societal factors shape autism research.

April 2023
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Imaging journal editors resign over ‘extreme’ open-access fees

by  /  19 April 2023

The editors intend to start a new nonprofit journal.

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A questionable study linked epidurals to autism. Then what?

by  /  18 April 2023

Researchers and clinicians were quick to point out the flaws in the study, and a flood of work refuted it.

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Weaponized heterogeneity only harms the most vulnerable autistic people

by  /  17 April 2023

Focusing on aspects of autistic experience that we all share may lead more quickly to our shared goal of improved outcomes for all autistic people.

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Community Newsletter: Catatonia meds; academia’s reimbursement problem

by  /  16 April 2023

Scientists on social media this week discussed alternative treatments for aggression and self-injury in children with autism and addressed issues young researchers face when it comes to reimbursement for conference travel.

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Week of AprilApr
10th
2023

Spotted around the web: Visual impairments; metabolomics; diagnosing girls

by  /  14 April 2023

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 10 April.

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New measure characterizes gender diversity in study participants

by  /  12 April 2023

The Gender Self-Report could help autism researchers include more gender-diverse people across a range of ages and neurotypes in their work.

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Community Newsletter: All about the hippocampus

by  /  9 April 2023

Social-media attention this week centered on two new studies of the brain’s memory hub: One employed virtual reality to probe how people use and update their cognitive maps, and the other tracked individual hippocampal neurons in mice as they learned.

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Week of AprilApr
3rd
2023

Spotted around the web: CNTNAP2 gene; post-synaptic densities; animal models

by , ,  /  7 April 2023

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 3 April.

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Spectrum Launch: The hidden costs of conference travel

by  /  6 April 2023

Most early-career researchers have to foot the bill for academic conferences and get reimbursed once they return. But not everyone can afford to wait for that payment.

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Community Newsletter: Polyneuro risk score; rat brain imaging protocol

by  /  2 April 2023

A pair of neuroimaging-related studies — one about a framework for brain-wide association studies and another about a standardized tool to image rat brains — held researchers’ attention on social media this week.

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