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Community Newsletter: Tracking cellular origins, autism acceptance, social-communication gains | Spectrum | Autism Research News
This week’s newsletter looks at new paper alerts about neocortical development, double empathy and predicting ‘super responders,’ plus queries for the science Twitterverse.
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Organoids show how mutations in top autism gene may lead to brain overgrowth in people | Spectrum | Autism Research News
The loss of CHD8, a top autism gene, speeds up the production of certain neurons and leads to overgrowth in spheres of cultured brain cells.
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I should really make a bot account that automatically posts news articles from this website.
Researchers, advocates rush to aid autistic Ukrainians | Spectrum | Autism Research News
Among the millions displaced by the war in Ukraine are children and adults with autism. Many autism professionals are doing what they can to help.
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What about the other autistic people?