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Research summary
- How well parents understand information about autism affects their use of health services and medication for their autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- According to a Chinese study, adolescents in the spectrum show more health-threatening behaviors such as aggression or self-harm than their non-autistic peers. World Journal of Clinical Cases
- Autistic women have different communication strengths and weaknesses compared to autistic men and non-autistic women. Limits in Psychology
- The experimental drug Blarcamesine, which is in clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease and Rett syndrome, reversed some behavioral changes seen in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome. Scientific reports
- Mice lacking the autism-related SHANK2 gene have social deficits that appear to depend on a specific neural pathway with gap junctions and NMDA receptors. Nature communication
- Shared attention, the ability to follow another’s focus, seems to be linked to intelligence in autistic children. Autism research
- An in-depth analysis of previous studies finds weak evidence that prenatal vitamins lower the likelihood of having a child with autism. nutrient
Science and society
- The autistic psychologist Wenn Lawson wrote a reminder for his colleague Dinah Murray, an autism researcher who died last month. autism
- An autism researcher describes how virtual platforms free you from the overwhelming aspects of personal conversations such as eye contact, body language and sensory stimuli. nature
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