Wendy Ungar

Senior scientist
Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute

Wendy Ungar is a scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and the Canada Research Chair in Economic Evaluation and Technology Assessment in Child Health.

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Spectrum

By Isabel Smith, Kate Tsiplova, Wendy Ungar

28 March 2023

5 min read

Computer-generated image of mountains against a black background.

Detecting a signal amid noise in autism early-intervention research

Studies of behavioral treatments for autism are complex and can easily be misunderstood. Here we provide some guidance.

Spectrum

Detecting a signal amid noise in autism early-intervention research

By Isabel Smith, Kate Tsiplova, Wendy Ungar

28 March 2023 | 5 min read

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Crisis de financiación en Argentina desata nueva ola de protestas

Dos años luego de que colapsara la financiación para investigación del país colapsara, los científicos están manifestando en contra del incumplimiento del gobierno para restaurar becas cortadas previamente y aumentar salarios como lo establece una del 2025.

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Astrocytes

By Mac Shine

12 May 2026

3 min read

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The silent majority: How astrocytes shape the brain across scales

Melissa Cooper talks to Mac Shine about her new work that reveals how these glial cells—long dismissed as the brain’s housekeepers—wire together in precise, long-range networks that remodel in response to experience.