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MindSpec Presents PEATC Webinar

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On Wed April 25 at 12:00 PM, MindSpec will broadcast an autism webinar for PEATC, the Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center. During the webinar, MindSpec scientists will present a tour of their new science outreach website, Autism Reading Room, designed to enhance public understanding of autism research.  They will highlight the Brain Biology section of
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Public Launch of Autism Reading Room

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Our new outreach website, Autism Reading Room, will be publicly released on April 15, 2012. Designed to enhance public understanding of autism research, Autism Reading Room is explains scientific advances in autism to a general audience. Its mission is to assist affected families in understanding their diagnosis, introduce the field of autism research to clinicians
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2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival

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MindSpec is proud to be an exhibitor at the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival, to be held at the Washington DC Convention Center on Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29, 2012. An invitation-only “Sneak Peek Friday” will be held on Friday, April 27, for underserved schools, homeschoolers, military families, and government officials. This national festival allows visitors
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Essay Contest – Autism Reading Room

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In honor of April as Autism Awareness Month, MindSpec is hosting an autism essay contest for high school students.  Although MindSpec is best known for creation of its autism gene database AutDB, we recently released Autism Reading Room, designed to enhance public understanding of autism research.   Download PDF Announcement   Autism is a neurodevelopmental
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MindSpec Celebrates Brain Awareness Week

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MindSpec celebrates Brain Awareness Week by expanding the “Brain Biology” section of Autism Reading Room, its new online resource designed to enhance public understanding of autism research. “Brain Biology” will be restructured to describe brains at different stages, comparing developing brains to those of adult brains.  Experience-dependent brain plasticity will be emphasized as a critical
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