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Highlights, missed opportunities: SfN by the tweets
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Participants video chatted and tweeted their way through the Society for Neuroscience’s three-day virtual conference this week.
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Science & Society
From funding decisions to scientific fraud, a wide range of societal factors shape autism research.
January 2021
Features / Deep Dive
The promise of scientific partnerships with people on the spectrum
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Five collaborations involving autistic scientists and experts are advancing autism research, from lending support for theories of the condition to shoring up trials of new treatments.
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Studies hint at effects of aging on autistic brains
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People with autism or autism traits may be especially vulnerable to brain aging and cognitive decline, two studies suggest.
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Community newsletter: Subjective perception, plus autism’s double empathy problem
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An fMRI scan can reconstruct a picture from a person’s brain activity, but that image changes depending on a person’s attention.
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News / Spotted
Spotted around the web: Autism in Kenya, oxytocin delivery, intellectual disability genes
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Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 04 January.
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‘Sanitizing’ functional genomics data may prevent privacy breaches
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A new technique for masking portions of raw genomic data increases shareability without sacrificing privacy.
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December 2020
Features / Special Reports
Hindsight is 2020: The year in review
This has been a year like no other. Our lives were upended in the first quarter as the novel coronavirus spread to every corner of the globe.
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Features / Special Reports / Hindsight is 2020: The year in review
Rewind: Spectrum’s best from 2020
Our staff picks the stories, podcasts and special reports that stood out from the rest this past year.
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Features / Special Reports / Hindsight is 2020: The year in review
2020: The year in quotes
In our favorite quotes from stories we published in 2020, researchers contemplate blue poop, celebrate null findings and find a few silver linings in life during lockdown.
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Features / Special Reports / Hindsight is 2020: The year in review
Inside the reporter’s notebook: Dispatches from 2020
Spectrum‘s staff couldn’t report on the ground this year — with no lab visits, sit-down interviews or in-person conferences to attend — but we observed a lot of changes from our computer screens.