In this episode of “Synaptic,” Kasari talks about the need for inclusion in educating autistic children, what drew her into the autism research field, and growing up on the family farm.

From funding decisions to scientific fraud, a wide range of societal factors shape autism research.

In 2019, Dorothy Tse was a postdoctoral researcher with dreams of running her own academic lab. For inspiration, she began reading self-help books about leadership in business, and although the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a reckoning, in which autism clinicians had to redefine best practices and expand how children are evaluated. The remote assessments they developed may help solve a ...

Fragile X syndrome is one of the most common forms of inherited intellectual disability, affecting 1 in 5,000 males 1. The vast majority of cases are caused by the expansion of a CGG-trinucleotide ...

Academics are not always aware of the standards — both explicit and implicit — that are used to assess them for promotion. We explore these expectations and more in this month’s issue of the Spectrum ...

Copy number variation, or CNV, refers to the duplication or deletion of stretches of a chromosomal region. These can be as large as megabases or smaller than 1,000 base pairs. Studies have linked copy ...

Repetitive movements and manipulation of objects are among the first signs of autism to emerge in toddlers 1, 2. Scores on tests of repetitive behavior at 2 years of age best predict autism at age 9 3 ...

Angelman syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder originally described by Harry Angelman in the 1960s 1, with an occurrence of about 1 in 12,000 births. A mouse model has also been generated to mimic ...

Individuals with Asperger syndrome share the social deficits, restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests, and impairments in theory of mind and executive function characteristic of autism 2, 3.

Currently, there are no accepted diagnostic tests for autism in children younger than approximately 3 years. However, studies of baby sibs has allowed researchers to follow high-risk infants from ...

There are several methods that can be used to perform DNA sequencing. One of the first sequencing methods developed in the 1970s, the Maxam-Gilbert method relies on chemical modification of DNA and ...