Daisy Yuhas

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Author of the Kids' Field Guide to Birds; Contributing Editor for @_TheTransmitter & @SciAm Mind Matters (rarely on social but trying to get better!)

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Reporter’s notebook: Highlights from INSAR 2025

3 weeks ago | thetransmitter.org | Daisy Yuhas

SEATTLE—From 30 April to 3 May, nearly 2,300 attendees from more than 50 countries gathered at the Seattle Convention Center for the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) annual meeting to discuss the latest scientific advances in autism research.
Functional connectivity; ASDQ screen; health burden of autism

Jan 7, 2025 | thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Daisy Yuhas

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 6 January. By Contributing writer Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Autism, Science and society, Spotted A neurodevelopmental condition arising from TAOK2 gene variants shares some characteristics—including autism—with that arising from TAOK1 variants, but there are differences as well.
Spectrum 2024: Year in review

Dec 22, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Daisy Yuhas

As our favorite articles from this year attest, 2024 was a year for self-reflection in the autism field. Scholars pushed one another to rethink the utility of popular concepts and tools, such as prototypicality and the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.” They considered lessons learned in their efforts to build a more globally inclusive scientific community.
Newfound gene network controls long-range connections between emotional, cognitive brain areas

Nov 14, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Charles Choi |Jill Adams |Daisy Yuhas |Ivan Oransky

Long-range connections between the amygdala, which helps process emotions, and cortical regions that power cognition help us manage our behavior and navigate social interactions. Now scientists have identified genes that direct developing neurons in the amygdala and its surrounding areas to forge these vital connections.
BCL11A-related intellectual developmental disorder; intervention dosage; gray-matter volume

Nov 12, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Daisy Yuhas |Anthony M. Zador |Paul Middlebrooks

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 11 November. By Contributing writer Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Autism, Science and society, Spotted Genotype-phenotype analysis of 77 people with BCL11A-related intellectual developmental disorder shows a range of BCL11A variants and traits, including microcephaly, hypotonia, persistence of fetal hemoglobin and autism.
Rousing a ‘new era’ of hibernation research

Nov 8, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Daisy Yuhas |Angie Voyles Askham |Jill Adams

In the Sterling Hall of Medicine at Yale University, a sign on a walk-in refrigerator door tells people to keep their voices down. Inside, about 250 ground squirrels are hibernating, each surrounded by shredded paper fluff and curled up in a clear plastic box. Shelves lined with these makeshift nests are bathed in red light that only the researchers can see, leaving the motionless animals in complete darkness.
Exploring the connection between autism and sleep

Nov 7, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Daisy Yuhas |Jill Adams |Charles Choi |Claudia Lopez Lloreda

Contributing editorSpectrum Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Autism, Signs and Symptoms, Sleep In autism research, the links between sleep and other traits have been the subject of intense scrutiny for decades. Some 80 percent of autistic children have sleep problems, by some estimates. These children may spend less time in REM sleep, have difficulty falling asleep or wake up more often during the night than their non-autistic peers.
Electrical fingerprints track single neurons over several months

Oct 31, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Elissa Welle |Daisy Yuhas |Angie Voyles Askham

Enny van Beest wanted to watch how the representation of spatial information in a single neuron changes in different environments and conditions across the span of two weeks. So, as a test run, she recorded 10 days of neural data from Neuropixels probes implanted in a mouse. She set a computer to crunch the data and waited an entire weekend for the analysis to process. Then, her computer crashed. Over and over again she tried analyzing the data, and every time, her computer crashed.
Cómo su cerebro procesa el cero (no es exactamente 'nada')

Oct 21, 2024 | espanol.news | Michaela Maya-Mrschtik |Daisy Yuhas

Cómo su cerebro procesa el cero (no es exactamente ‘nada’)Lo que pensamos cuando pensamos en “nada” es sorprendentemente complejo, según los neurocientíficosMuchas ecuaciones matemáticas sólo pueden resolverse gracias a un invento humano especial: el número cero. En muchos sentidos, es un concepto extraño. Es una cantidad, definida por la ausencia.
How Your Brain Processes Zero (It’s Not Exactly ‘Nothing’)

Oct 21, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Michaela Maya-Mrschtik |Daisy Yuhas

Many mathematical equations can only be solved thanks to a special human invention: the number zero. In many ways, it is a strange concept. It’s a quantity, defined by absence. It also emerged relatively recently in our species’ cultural histories, gives rise to several paradoxes—one cannot divide by zero, for example—and is foundational to mathematics. Yet “null” is not easy to comprehend. “It requires an extra level of abstract thinking to master zero….