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Anxiety can majorly impact the daily lives of autistic people, especially since it’s a common health problem in autistic adults and children. It makes it difficult for them to cope at school or work. It’s unsure why most autistic people have anxiety, but each person has different triggers and approaches to manage the symptoms. In…

As you scroll through your social media, your algorithm is filled with autism advice and stories other parents and experts share. A couple of autism memes pop up, and you’re stuck in a dilemma: should you find them funny just because they’re relatable? These pictures highlighting a particular topic can be funny and offensive to…

Francis Marion University President Fred Carter says the university’s multi-categorical special education/autism studies bachelor’s degree program will be a big help to the Pee Dee region. File/Chris Day/Staff The special education/autism studies bachelor’s degree incorporates special education, school and clinical psychology programs, speech and language pathology courses and occupational therapy programs, which will be the…

For the following analyses, several genes were selected from previous ASD studies (Table 2, Supplementary Table 1). All analyses for each ASD associated gene use the previous summary statistics of the ASD GWAS meta-analysis as an input. Table 2 ASD associated genes collected from bibliography and selected for eQTL colocalization study.Full size table Twelve genes…

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By Pat Welter, WRAL Sports anchor/reporter In the moments before the NC State-Clemson game, the captains walked out to midfield and so did Payton Gibbs. Gibbs is about half the size of Wolfpack linebacker Payton Wilson, but you could say has equal heart. Gibbs is an honorary coach for the game. The coin toss is…

My autistic son Nat went as The Joker this Halloween. I was particularly struck by the creepiness of his costume, so unlike his more wholesome costume of previous years. For decades Nat has chosen to be Zorro, a masked avenger from long-ago Spain. He first learned about Zorro from watching Disney Sing-Along videos, and so…

Sponsored Stock up on Glenwood pecans this holiday season. (Glenwood) I can’t think of the holidays without imagining the taste of the delicious pecan pies and brittle my family would make. For the pecan-lover on your list, check out Glenwood’s Pecans for Autism sale. Between November 1-January 10 you can order pecans, specialty coffees and…

[By: Damen] On the 19th of October, the flag raising ceremony for three new ASD Tugs took place in Gdansk, Poland. In the presence of a large group of Polish and international associates and company employees, the new tugs were welcomed into the fleet. This followed the christening ceremony of the second ASD Tug 2811…

Photograph by Richard Drury A Michigan neuroscientist has retracted two papers and corrected three others. All of the retraction or correction notices, which appeared across five journals between January 2022 and September 2023, mention duplicated images of some kind. Both retracted papers and one corrected paper investigated the effects of dietary supplements on brain cells…