Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 5 October.

Davi Bock’s lab took 21 million images for the fruit fly connectome. Now he wants to apply “this high-throughput flashlight” ...

In “A Mother’s Brain,” Carmona shares key moments in her career that led her to study the neuroscience of motherhood.

The technique enables neuroscientists to target brain circuits with unprecedented specificity, transforming the study of ...

To enhance AI safety, take a lesson from biological brains; a small set of wants maintains durable control over a much larger ...

Confidence may therefore not have a single computational architecture. Sometimes it behaves like a genuine second thought; sometimes it is built into the first.

The big picture Trading places: What happens when neuroscience turns into machine learning, and machine learning turns into neuroscience? Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction ...

Ariel Zylberberg is a research scientist at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. He studies the neural and computational mechanisms of decision-making, with a particular focus on confidence and ...

A new functional MRI (fMRI) technique cuts down on scanning noise and motion-related artifacts, broadening the range of brain ...

The field has long known that serotonin neurons vary, but understanding how and where they connect within the brain was ...

Autism-linked variants converge on two molecular patterns in mouse brains Gene activity across 17 autism mouse models occurs in either of two opposing transcriptomic states, supporting the idea that ...

Gene activity across 17 mouse models occurs in one of two molecular states, suggesting diverse genetic changes converge on a ...