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

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Recent Episodes

The 2025 Year in Review

Dec 29, 2025 24m

This year was a VERY eventful year for autism. If you want to hear a highlight of the good news, the great science that was discovered and the ideas developed to help families with autism, listen to…

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The National Institutes of Health just awarded $50million to 13 different research sites to better understand genetic and environmental contributions to an autism diagnosis, or increase in prevalence…

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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…

Genetic therapies in store for neurodevelopmental disorders

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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,…

An Explanation of Some of the Recent Scientific Research Announcements

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The past couple of weeks have been a flurry of decisions involving government funding for research and health and wellness services. It’s been difficult to understand their impact without…

Factors That Influence Heterogeity and How

Oct 13, 2024 34m

Understanding factors that make each person with autism different has been a challenge, affecting diagnosis, interventions and the way we think about autism in general. Researchers at Istituto…

Profound Autism: The first meaningful autism subgroup

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Instead of grouping together people with autism based on traditional severity scores, what if groupings were done based on functional outcome? Would this help better understand the broad spectrum…

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…

Biology of profound and non-profound autism

Jun 02, 2024 12m

Scientists have spent a lot of time trying to understand the biology of autism, unfortunately in the past, scientific studies had everyone with autism lumped together in one group and there are so…

Are new ICD-11 criteria for an autism diagnosis too vague?

Feb 11, 2024 31m

In the last version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the different subtypes of autism were folded into one label: autism spectrum disorder. A similar revision is being made around the…