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Spectrum Index: Self-harm hospitalizations, everolimus flops in phase 2 trial
This month’s newsletter also highlights deflated autism prevalence estimates from Shanghai, China.

Spectrum Index: Self-harm hospitalizations, everolimus flops in phase 2 trial
This month’s newsletter also highlights deflated autism prevalence estimates from Shanghai, China.
Spectrum Index: Dip in autism screening, null cancer risk, therapist surge
This month’s newsletter looks at a decline in well-child visits during the coronavirus pandemic, the autism-cancer connection and the sizeable fraction of autistic children who live in poverty.

Spectrum Index: Dip in autism screening, null cancer risk, therapist surge
This month’s newsletter looks at a decline in well-child visits during the coronavirus pandemic, the autism-cancer connection and the sizeable fraction of autistic children who live in poverty.
Spectrum Index: Rare genetic diagnoses, obesity odds, violence against children
This month’s newsletter looks at the minority of autistic people who have an identifiable genetic cause for their condition, and at the fraction of autistic children who are obese.

Spectrum Index: Rare genetic diagnoses, obesity odds, violence against children
This month’s newsletter looks at the minority of autistic people who have an identifiable genetic cause for their condition, and at the fraction of autistic children who are obese.
Spectrum Index: IQ deviations, rural disparities and underweight infants
This monthly newsletter offers quick statistics on the latest data-centric, autism research studies.

Spectrum Index: IQ deviations, rural disparities and underweight infants
This monthly newsletter offers quick statistics on the latest data-centric, autism research studies.
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Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery
The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.

Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery
The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.
Microglia nurture young interneurons
The immune cells secrete a growth factor that “sets the supply of GABAergic interneurons in the developing brain.”

Microglia nurture young interneurons
The immune cells secrete a growth factor that “sets the supply of GABAergic interneurons in the developing brain.”
Xaq Pitkow shares his principles for studying cognition in our imperfect brains and bodies
Pitkow discusses how evolution's messy constraints shape optimal brain algorithms, from Bayesian inference to ecological affordances.
Xaq Pitkow shares his principles for studying cognition in our imperfect brains and bodies
Pitkow discusses how evolution's messy constraints shape optimal brain algorithms, from Bayesian inference to ecological affordances.