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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.
From funding decisions to scientific fraud, a wide range of societal factors shape autism research.
Participants video chatted and tweeted their way through the Society for Neuroscience’s three-day virtual conference this week.
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.
People with autism or autism traits may be especially vulnerable to brain aging and cognitive decline, two studies suggest.
An fMRI scan can reconstruct a picture from a person’s brain activity, but that image changes depending on a person’s attention.
Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 04 January.
A new technique for masking portions of raw genomic data increases shareability without sacrificing privacy.
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.
Our staff picks the stories, podcasts and special reports that stood out from the rest this past year.
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.
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.