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Ready for your weekly roundup of autism research tweets?
First in this issue of Spectrum’s Community Newsletter, the January 15 cover of The Lancet included a quote from the journal’s recent commission on the future of autism care and clinical research.
On this week’s cover, a quote from The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in #autism: https://t.co/4GotrTcBmO
Access the new edition: https://t.co/VSFYpk0XVt pic.twitter.com/XKwsUIZLJf
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) January 14, 2022
The issue includes a report from the commission and a profile of commission co-chairs Catherine Lord, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and commentary by Monica Juneja, Professor of Pediatrics at Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, India, and their colleagues. All are useful reading before you join Lord and her Commission Co-Chair, Tony Charman, Chair of Clinical Child Psychology at King’s College London in the UK, next Wednesday 26 January 2022 at 11:00 am EST Attend the Spectrum webinar.
Also Wednesday at 11 a.m. EST, Jill Silverman, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis, will speak about translational biomarkers, tweeted Silvia De Rubeis, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, who coordinates the center’s seminar series. Both lectures will be recorded so you can watch one or the other later.
Next in our ????2022???? lineup is @jill_silverman_ (@ucdavis)
Join us on Wednesday 26th @worldwideneuro to learn more about translational biomarkers of preclinical models of neurodev disorders ????@worldwideneuro https://t.co/efdzvIE0bf @SeaverAutism @SinaiBrain @MountSinaiPsych https: //t.co/PmTCL8oSg0 pic .twitter.com/jpudJASchGV
— Silvia De Rubeis (@DeRubeisLab) January 13, 2022
The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) has launched a new initiative, the INSAR Community Collaborator Request, to bring autism researchers together with autistic adults and other stakeholders to conduct participatory research, autism researcher Zack Williams tweeted. Williams, an MD/Ph.D. A student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, provides details in a thoughtful thread with links to additional resources by Sue Fletcher-Watson, professor of developmental psychology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
????New Exciting Opportunity for Autistic People and Autism Researchers???? The @AutismINSAR Community Collaborator Request (#ICCR) is a new initiative to help bring autism researchers and autistic adults (or other stakeholders) together to collaborate on participatory research 1/???? https://t.co/v9laGNuyXS
— Zack Williams (@QuantPsychiatry) January 20, 2022
Nature Medicine has highlighted research paper published in Cell in November that reverses the link between autism and microbiome differences: Rather than causing the characteristics of the condition, microbiome differences may result from the dietary preferences of many autistic people. Spectrum covered some of the work in October.
⭐ Research Highlight: #Microbiome changes have been linked to #autism, but a study published in @CellCellPress suggests this may be a consequence of autism-related dietary preferences rather than a causal factor.https://t.co/fbPRWFqQBb
— Natural Medicine (@NatureMedicine) January 20, 2022
And, “The Emperor has no clothes,” tweeted Andrew Whitehouse, a professor of autism research at Telethon Kids and University of Western Australia in Perth, of a new test for autism that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given status as a ” groundbreaking device” in December. Spectrum reported on the agency’s announcement last week.
No clinical validity whatsoever for how hair analysis can diagnose a complex neurological and behavioral condition.
The Emperor has no clothes.
FDA Cites Hair-Based Autism Diagnostic Aid as a “Breakthrough” https://t.co/QdvvXg5j4S Newsletter via @Spectrum
— Andrew Whitehouse (@AJOWhitehouse) January 17, 2022
That’s it for this week’s community newsletter! If you have any suggestions for interesting social posts you’ve seen in the field of autism research, feel free to email news@spectrumnews.org.
Cite this article: https://doi.org/10.53053/PPLU3820
