Growing up, food was never neutral. It was moralized, restricted, praised, shamed, and sometimes used as punishment long before I had words for it. By age 8, I was already trapped in a restrict-binge cycle. My family had long told me I wasn’t allowed to have food that would “make me fat.” So I resorted […]
Research summary An independent analysis confirmed diagnoses of autism reported by home and caregivers in 251 of 254 participants in SPARK, a large genetic autism study. (SPARK is funded by the Simons Foundation, Spectrum’s parent organization.) Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Children with dup15q syndrome, an autism-related disorder, exhibit altered brain wave activity while […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to this week’s community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. We have some great tweets for you guys this week, so let’s dive in. Our first thread was from Robert McCutcheon, Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at King’s College London in […]
