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The week in autism research discoveries
In November, there will be many Congressional seats open. Wouldn’t it be great if it was someone with firsthand knowledge of the exper...
Another study on acetaminophen (known as paramecetol in Denmark) on probability of having a child with autism, this one with over 1.5 millio...
The word “mitochondrial deficits” gets thrown around a lot as a cause of autism, but what does this really mean? This week we in...
What is the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee and why did it meet? This week’s podcast discusses the need and the agenda of Th...
This week’s podcast summarizes some highlights in scientific research and includes a recognition of Rare Disease Week and actions take...
This week we talk to Dr. Emily Hotez from UCLA, (and a sibling to an autistic adult) who has focused her research on reducing stigma and mar...
A landmark study that uses brain organoids from different people with different genes associated with autism showed that the different genes...
Air pollution, specifically one part of air pollution called PM 2.5 (named for the size of the crud in the air pollution) has been linked to...
On this week’s podcast, we present new research summarizing how autism is part of a larger spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders and...
This year was a VERY eventful year for autism. If you want to hear a highlight of the good news, the great science that was discovered and t...
The immune system is critically involved in autism. Of course, there are still a lot of questions to answer, particularly whether dysregulat...
You may have heard terms in early intervention like “NDBI” or “Early Start Denver Model” and wondered if there was a...
Everyone knows cognitive ability is critical for understanding autism, however, how does it affect developmental trajectories of autism trai...
This week, a new study suggests a causal link not between Tylenol, but to COVID, which can cause a fever. There is clearly more research nee...
Two pediatricians, a child neurologist and a child psychiatrist walk into the ASF weekly science podcast to discuss the safety, efficacy and...
The National Institutes of Health just awarded $50million to 13 different research sites to better understand genetic and environmental cont...
In an effort to better understand the causes of autism in those with a known genetic variant associated with ASD or other developmental diso...
This week the @WSJ reported that the upcoming MAHA report will include acetaminophen (also known as Tylenol in the United States, although i...
This week, Drs. Casey Burrows from @UMN and Shuting Zheng from @UTexas discuss a new paper looking at sex differences in autism features fro...
As the autistic brain ages, is it more vulnerable to other brain disorders? Recent scientific discoveries in Parkinson’s Disease and A...
This week’s podcast includes summaries from two new scientific studies (with comments from one of the studies’ authors @SimonsFo...
This week’s ASF weekly science podcast features Dr. David Amaral, who directs the Autism BrainNet. The Autism BrainNet is a program th...
This week’s podcast includes Storyform Science founders H. Adam Steinberg and Holly Kerby, both scientists who now help other scientis...
Gene therapies have been in the news lately. They are being used to help individuals who have a genetic variant linked to a disorder or dise...
The NIH has launched the new Autism Data Science Initiative: https://dpcpsi.nih.gov/autism-data-science-initiative/funding-opportunities#sec...
This year’s International Society of Autism Research Meeting was filled with great presentations about causes, diagnosis, intervention...
With the International Society for Autism Research underway and a new wave of misunderstanding about scientific evidence in autism, it’...
There is a cell in the brain called the microglia which has been traditionally overlooked as a target for therapies. New research supported...
Catatonia is a syndrome which includes immobility, stupor, and sometimes regression in psychiatric wellness or even ability to feed or take...
Contextual factors, or external factors, are environmental influences and can impact not just a diagnosis but the life course of a person wi...
Today’s #ASFpodcast explains the potential and the unknowns behind folate, known as leucovorin when prescribe, for treating autism. CB...
The past couple of weeks have been a flurry of decisions involving government funding for research and health and wellness services. It̵...
On this week’s podcast, Dr. Elaine Clarke from @RutgersU discusses the role of adaptive behavior. This refers to the wide range of ski...
Two therapies that are meant to alter brainwave activity, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulati...
It happens every year – this one belonged in the 2024 year end highlights but was published late in the year. Researchers at UCSD, UCL...
New Technologies, New Data, New Solutions This year’s progress in autism research includes promising findings, clarifications, explanations,...
While it may not seem like it, the COVID-19 pandemic brought some advances in care and understanding for people on the spectrum. One example...
This week, special podcast correspondent #MiaKotikovski summarizes new research on the increasing prevalence of autism, with a focus on fema...
….or at a podcast with at least an attempt at an explanation of what synaptic density is and how it is affected in brains of people wi...
Are you the grandparent, cousin, aunt, uncle, sibling, or half-sibling of someone with autism and wondered “what is the likelihood of...
Despite many years fighting it, families with autism still experience societal stigma. The experiences depend on many factors, summarized in...
Animal models of autism, including cell based models, have received criticism because autism is a uniquely human condition so there is no va...
This week, part 1 in cultural stigma around autism with Mia Kotikovski provides an overview of stigma, where it can come from across culture...
Understanding factors that make each person with autism different has been a challenge, affecting diagnosis, interventions and the way we th...
A few years after the start of the pandemic, and a couple of years into “recovery”, scientists are still disentangeling the effe...
In part 2 of the GI series in ASD, a new paper in the Journal of Nutrition and Gastroenterology describing the www.candidgi.com meeting is d...
In the first of a two-part series on digestive health in ASD, Mia Kotikovski summarizes scientific information about what the complicated mi...
New research points to a previously understudied but fascinating mechanism by which environmental factors may lead to autism: it’s cal...
This week, special correspondent Mia Kotikovski discusses challenges in getting emergency care for those with autism, what doctors and hospi...
Instead of grouping together people with autism based on traditional severity scores, what if groupings were done based on functional outcom...