Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean struggle to collect data on autism, but Cecilia Montiel-Nava and the Latin American Autism Spectrum Network are beginning to change that.

This week’s newsletter considers tweets about the assumptions baked into brain-imaging studies; the reach of brain waves; and a diet-based intervention for a rare autism-linked condition.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 6 February.

High school interns don’t just gain new skills — they also form a pipeline of future scientists.

Discussion among autism researchers on Twitter this week swirled around how well pediatricians assess the condition, how it affects cognitive aging and how it alters cardiometabolic disease risk.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 30 January.

Elsevier’s retractions focus on peer review and conflicts of interest.

A new measure shows how greatly movement influences associations between traits and brain activity, revealing abundant false positives and false negatives.

Conversation took off this week around precision in neuroscience measurements, a new strategy to rescue Rett neurons, autism insights from protein interactomes, and mechanisms of touch perception.