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Since Apr 2024

Latest Episode Mar 2026

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The latest autism research news stories with ASF Chief Science Officer Alycia Halladay

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Recent Episodes

Rare Disease Week, the FDA, mortality in autism, trajectories and subcategories

Mar 08, 2026 18m

This week’s podcast summarizes some highlights in scientific research and includes a recognition of Rare Disease Week and actions taken by the FDA to ease the criteria for evaluating genetic…

The different flavors of early intervention

Dec 01, 2025 44m

You may have heard terms in early intervention like “NDBI” or “Early Start Denver Model” and wondered if there was a difference in efficacy behind all these flavors of toddler interventions. On this…

Can COVID cause autism?

Nov 03, 2025 15m

This week, a new study suggests a causal link not between Tylenol, but to COVID, which can cause a fever. There is clearly more research needed, but the findings are consistent with research on the…

This one’s for the girls

Aug 25, 2025 45m

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…

What labels should be used to describe autism?

Jul 27, 2025 23m

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…

Online autism assessments as a perk of the pandemic

Dec 16, 2024 17m

While it may not seem like it, the COVID-19 pandemic brought some advances in care and understanding for people on the spectrum. One example is the development and validity of remotely administered…

More about the environmental influences in autism

Sep 08, 2024 15m

New research points to a previously understudied but fascinating mechanism by which environmental factors may lead to autism: it’s called the “GABA/glutamate switch” which is a critical period in…

Breakthrough for those with rare genetic disorders

Jun 29, 2024 12m

This week, more on genetics as an influence to an autism diagnosis with a twist: can genetics lead to a specific treatment for core symptoms – across the board? How do you measure such broad…

What happens to premature infants as they get older?

May 06, 2024 31m

As health care and outcomes for very premature infants has improved, scientists are able to track their longer term behavioral development, and that includes risk of developmental disorders like…

The Trouble with Transitions

Apr 01, 2024 11m

This podcast has not covered transition from adolescence to adulthood in the past, probably because there has not been a lot of research in this area. Luckily, recently there has been a surge of…