Anya Leonova
Postdoctoral fellow
MIT
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Vision as gateway for understanding autism
Impairments in vision, even if they don’t cause autism, are likely to be manifestations of underlying neural abnormalities, says Pawan Sinha, professor of vision and founder of the humanitarian organization Project Prakash.

Vision as gateway for understanding autism
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Convergent effects of autism-linked genes in zebrafish; and more
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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.