This month’s issue is packed with tips for early-career researchers heading to the first in-person meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in three years.

Recent Twitter threads explore a new approach to autism diagnosis, a mysterious genetic region and social determinants of health.

My experience at the Autism-Europe International Congress — and as a parent of a child with profound autism — makes me more convinced than ever that we need to bifurcate the diagnosis of ‘autism spectrum disorder’ and add a new diagnosis of ‘profound autism’ to better serve this vulnerable population.

Two threads pose intriguing neuroscience questions; plus a criminal-justice policy brief.

A meeting in Texas reckons with the future of treatment, following two setbacks in 2020.

Threads on a GoogleMap for the brain and guidance on communicating with autistic people in a health-care setting garnered gobs of comments this week.

Our Twitter feeds were awash with research activity this week, including a review of autism intervention studies and resources to build better data-wrangling skills.

The pair’s new guidebook offers practical steps to make clinical trials easier and more meaningful for autistic participants.

Two groups are working to increase representation among neuropsychology researchers, in part to improve behavioral assessments for autism.

Their plans stand to improve how autistic children from racial or ethnic minorities are evaluated.