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·September 24, 2021·5 min read

Unusual Visual Examination of Objects May Indicate Later Autism Diagnosis in Infants

The way in which an infant visually examines an object may predict a later autism diagnosis, researchers say. Unusual visual inspection of items at 9 months was a strong predictor of an ASD diagnosis later in childhood.

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·September 10, 2021·4 min read

Personality Matters, Even for Squirrels

Squirrels have four main personality traits, researchers report. Understanding how an animal's personality influences use of space may be important for wildlife conservation.

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·September 3, 2021·4 min read

New Model for Solving Novel Problems Uses Mental Map

The cognitive map allows people to compute on the fly with limited information to solve abstract problems.

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·August 14, 2021·3 min read

Cats Prefer to Get Free Meals Rather Than Work for Them

Domestic cats choose not a contrafreeload, a behavior where most animals prefer to work for their food.

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·June 15, 2021·5 min read

That Song Is Stuck in Your Head, but It’s Helping You to Remember

Earworms, those songs that get stuck in your head, may help strengthen memories of music and life events, a new study reports.

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·May 17, 2021·6 min read

Air Quality Linked to Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s

Study reveals an association between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk of age-related Alzheimer's disease.

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·March 18, 2021·3 min read

Animal Model Opens Way to Test Alzheimer’s Disease Therapies

Using rhesus macaques, researchers have developed a new model of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

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Autism Featured Neuroscience

·March 12, 2021·5 min read

Adolescents With Autism May Engage Neural Control Systems Differently

Proactive control is not impaired in those on the autism spectrum. Instead, those with ASD implement proactive control in a unique manner.

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·March 10, 2021·4 min read

Making Decisions Based on How We Feel About Memories, Not Accuracy

Objective and subjective memories function independently and involve different areas of the brain. People who make decisions based on subjective memory rely more on how they feel about the memory than on the accuracy of the details.

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·January 25, 2021·5 min read

Biomarkers in Mother’s Plasma Predict a Type of Autism in Offspring With 100% Accuracy

Using machine learning, researchers have identified patterns of maternal autoantibodies in the blood plasma of pregnant women that were highly associated with autism and the severity of symptoms in offspring.

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·December 17, 2020·6 min read

Big Brains and White Matter: New Clues About Autism Subtypes

Two new studies shed light on brain development and changes in ASD. Researchers found the development of white matter tracts in the brain was linked to the severity of autism symptoms. Additionally, larger brain size at age 3 was linked to a larger brain size later in childhood.