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  • Happy Birthday Simons Searchlight!

    Happy Birthday Simons Searchlight!
    Sep 21 2025
    In an effort to better understand the causes of autism in those with a known genetic variant associated with ASD, in 2010, the Simons Foundation launched @SimonsSearchlight. Since it’s inception, it has grown to not just study specific genes, but to provide resources to researchers, support for patient advocacy groups to develop clinical trials and …

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    44 min
  • Let’s Talk Tylenol

    Let’s Talk Tylenol
    Sep 8 2025
    This week the @WSJ reported that the upcoming MAHA report will include acetaminophen (also known as Tylenol in the United States, although it is used all over the world) use during pregnancy as a cause of autism. Acetaminophen is used in about 7.5 % of pregnant women. This is one of many environmental exposures that …

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    16 min
  • This one’s for the girls

    This one’s for the girls
    Aug 25 2025
    This week, Drs. Casey Burrows from @UMN and Shuting Zheng from @UTexas discuss a new paper looking at sex differences in autism features from 20-40 months of age. A new analysis done with data from the Baby Siblings Research Consortium concludes that, early in life, girls with autism show differences in some autism features (like …

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    45 min
  • Autism and diseases of the aging brain

    Autism and diseases of the aging brain
    Aug 10 2025
    As the autistic brain ages, is it more vulnerable to other brain disorders? Recent scientific discoveries in Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease show that there may be an underlying mechanism between these diseases and autism. However diagnosing someone with autism with an additional brain disorder, especially dementia, can be difficult. This week’s podcast covers the …

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    12 min
  • What labels should be used to describe autism?

    What labels should be used to describe autism?
    Jul 27 2025
    This week’s podcast includes summaries from two new scientific studies (with comments from one of the studies’ authors @SimonsFoundation and @princetonPPH) about that tackle grouping and labeling the differences across the spectrum into meaningful subtypes. Both provide scientific evidence, including behavioral and biological data, that support the use of different labels. This is more evidence …

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    23 min
  • The Science of Autism BrainNet

    The Science of Autism BrainNet
    Jul 14 2025
    This week’s ASF weekly science podcast features Dr. David Amaral, who directs the Autism BrainNet. The Autism BrainNet is a program that organizes the collection of post-mortem brain tissue and then distributes it to autism researchers worldwide to better understand the brains of people with autism. He discusses major scientific discoveries about the mechanisms of …

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    53 min
  • Helping science tell a story

    Helping science tell a story
    Jun 28 2025
    This week’s podcast includes Storyform Science founders H. Adam Steinberg and Holly Kerby, both scientists who now help other scientists use storytelling to convey the importance of their findings to a broad community. Anyone can do it, and it is so important to help communicate to the public, convince policymakers to listen and granters to …

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    55 min
  • Genetic therapies in store for neurodevelopmental disorders

    Genetic therapies in store for neurodevelopmental disorders
    Jun 16 2025
    Gene therapies have been in the news lately. They are being used to help individuals who have a genetic variant linked to a disorder or disease, including but not limited to: spinal muscular atrophy, carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency, diabetes and some types of cancers. What is the promise in rare genetic forms of …

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    45 min