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By the Numbers: Suspensions, unemployment, health checks
This edition plots school suspensions and the unemployment gap for autistic people, and charts outcomes for those who attend regular health checks.

By the Numbers: Suspensions, unemployment, health checks
This edition plots school suspensions and the unemployment gap for autistic people, and charts outcomes for those who attend regular health checks.
By the Numbers: Services cliff, hospital costs, co-occurring ADHD
This edition of By the Numbers maps where the autism services cliff is steepest, plots hospital costs for autistic youth and charts the overlap of ADHD and autism.

By the Numbers: Services cliff, hospital costs, co-occurring ADHD
This edition of By the Numbers maps where the autism services cliff is steepest, plots hospital costs for autistic youth and charts the overlap of ADHD and autism.
By the Numbers: Mental health diagnoses, melatonin-tied polypharmacy, journal gender gap
This edition of By the Numbers plots the rising rates of mental health conditions over the past 50 years, prescribing patterns in New Zealand and the gender gap among neuroscience journal editors.

By the Numbers: Mental health diagnoses, melatonin-tied polypharmacy, journal gender gap
This edition of By the Numbers plots the rising rates of mental health conditions over the past 50 years, prescribing patterns in New Zealand and the gender gap among neuroscience journal editors.
By the Numbers: Autism funding over time, West African research, racial reporting
This edition of By the Numbers plots the rise of biology-centric autism grants, a dearth of West African autism research and the lack of racial data in intervention studies.

By the Numbers: Autism funding over time, West African research, racial reporting
This edition of By the Numbers plots the rise of biology-centric autism grants, a dearth of West African autism research and the lack of racial data in intervention studies.
By the Numbers: Unequal ABA access, autism incidence by insurance type, criminal charges counts
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss geographic disparities in access to behavior therapy, autism incidence among the privately or publicly insured and the rarity of criminal charges against autistic people in New Zealand.

By the Numbers: Unequal ABA access, autism incidence by insurance type, criminal charges counts
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss geographic disparities in access to behavior therapy, autism incidence among the privately or publicly insured and the rarity of criminal charges against autistic people in New Zealand.
Autism by the numbers: Explaining its apparent rise
Is autism really more common among children today than in generations past? This new downloadable book offers an in-depth guide to the various factors that have helped to drive autism prevalence numbers up.

Autism by the numbers: Explaining its apparent rise
Is autism really more common among children today than in generations past? This new downloadable book offers an in-depth guide to the various factors that have helped to drive autism prevalence numbers up.
By the Numbers: Autism in translation, rising prevalence figures, intelligence quotients
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss how translation alters a screening tool’s accuracy, the closing racial gap in autism prevalence numbers, and the preponderance of autism without intellectual disability.

By the Numbers: Autism in translation, rising prevalence figures, intelligence quotients
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss how translation alters a screening tool’s accuracy, the closing racial gap in autism prevalence numbers, and the preponderance of autism without intellectual disability.
By the Numbers: Black neuroscience speakers, mildly effective CBT, autism’s diagnostic odyssey
This edition of By the Numbers logs the continued underrepresentation of Black speakers at neuroscience meetings, mildly-effective cognitive behavioral therapy and early autism diagnoses.

By the Numbers: Black neuroscience speakers, mildly effective CBT, autism’s diagnostic odyssey
This edition of By the Numbers logs the continued underrepresentation of Black speakers at neuroscience meetings, mildly-effective cognitive behavioral therapy and early autism diagnoses.
By the Numbers: Preschool antipsychotics, COVID-19 vaccinations, delayed autism diagnoses
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss antipsychotic use among autistic preschoolers, coronavirus vaccination rates among autistic Israelis and autism diagnosis timelines.

By the Numbers: Preschool antipsychotics, COVID-19 vaccinations, delayed autism diagnoses
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss antipsychotic use among autistic preschoolers, coronavirus vaccination rates among autistic Israelis and autism diagnosis timelines.
By the Numbers: Machine learning, dementia link, antipsychotics while pregnant
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss machine learning for autism, early-onset dementia, and antipsychotic medicines during pregnancy.

By the Numbers: Machine learning, dementia link, antipsychotics while pregnant
In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss machine learning for autism, early-onset dementia, and antipsychotic medicines during pregnancy.
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‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt
In her new book, published today, neuroscientist Nicole Rust takes us on her personal quest to spell out the brain research community's "Grand Plan."

‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt
In her new book, published today, neuroscientist Nicole Rust takes us on her personal quest to spell out the brain research community's "Grand Plan."
Convergent effects of autism-linked genes in zebrafish; and more
Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 9 June.

Convergent effects of autism-linked genes in zebrafish; and more
Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 9 June.
More than two dozen papers by neural tube researcher come under scrutiny
One of the studies, published in 2021 in Science Advances, received an editorial expression of concern on 21 May, after the journal learned that an institutional review of alleged image problems is underway.

More than two dozen papers by neural tube researcher come under scrutiny
One of the studies, published in 2021 in Science Advances, received an editorial expression of concern on 21 May, after the journal learned that an institutional review of alleged image problems is underway.