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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 Niko McCarty
20 May 2022 | 2 min read
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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 Niko McCarty
14 April 2022 | 1 min read
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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 Niko McCarty
16 March 2022 | 1 min read
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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 Niko McCarty
16 February 2022 | 1 min read

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 Niko McCarty
20 January 2022 | 1 min read
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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 Spectrum
22 December 2021 | 1 min read
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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 Peter Hess, Niko McCarty, Jonathan Moens
21 December 2021 | 1 min read

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 Peter Hess, Niko McCarty
19 November 2021 | 1 min read
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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 Niko McCarty
20 October 2021 | 1 min read
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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 Peter Hess, Niko McCarty
16 September 2021 | 2 min read

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Securing the academic pipeline amid uncertain U.S. funding climate

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By Lucina Q. Uddin
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Let’s teach neuroscientists how to be thoughtful and fair reviewers

Blanco-Suárez revamped the traditional journal club by developing a course in which students peer review preprints alongside the published papers that evolved from them.

By Elena Blanco-Suárez
6 March 2026 | 6 min read
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New autism committee positions itself as science-backed alternative to government group

The Independent Autism Coordinating Committee plans to meet at the same time as the U.S. federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee later this month—and offer its own research agenda.

By Angie Voyles Askham
5 March 2026 | 5 min read

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