


New assessment tool provides a remote telehealth approach to facilitate autism diagnosis during COVID-19 and beyond
So Hyun Kim, Catherine Lord and colleagues developed a new telehealth approach to autism assessment — the Brief Observation of Symptoms of Autism (BOSA) — for use during COVID-19 and beyond.

Oxytocin regulates changes in social brain circuits connectivity in a Cntnap2 mouse model of autism
Daniel Geschwind and colleagues showed that Cntnap2 knockout mice exhibit alterations in brain-wide connectivity related to social behaviors and that oxytocin within the nucleus accumbens regulates changes in connectivity.
Loss of Tsc1 in striatal neurons may contribute to altered motor behaviors in tuberous sclerosis complex and autism
Helen Bateup and colleagues showed that a loss of Tsc1 from striatal direct pathway neurons altered synaptic function and enhanced motor routine learning in mice. These findings suggest that changes in select types of striatal neurons may underlie altered motor behaviors in individuals with tuberous sclerosis complex and autism.