The 2021 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting (SfN) wrapped up yesterday, after four packed days of virtual presentations. The in-person portion of the event was called off a month ago because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A slew of technical glitches plagued the online offerings, but Spectrum's reporters dialed in to a range of autism-related talks, writing up new findings about maternal auto-antibodies, SCN2A mutations and possible gene therapy approaches for Pitt-Hopkins syndrome,

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... mong other topics. The reports below give quick takes on some other autism-related developments of note from the conference.