On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

This week on On Your Mind: It’s an OYM blast from the past with this week’s special-release, archived episode!   This episode starts out with a well-deserved congratulation to our very own Liam, for acing his PhD candidacy exam.  Now he’s formally allowed to do more work for no change in pay!  We also talk about how frustrating it can be when your experiments don’t work and how nerve wracking it is waiting for a funding decision.  This is the first (and hopefully last) episode where the “Kath-eter of science” makes an appearance and then it’s onto this week’s paper.   It’s called “Detection of Clinically Relevant Genetic Variants in Autism Spectrum Disorder by Whole-Genome Sequencing” by Jiang et al. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.06.012 This paper brings up some nostalgic flash-backs from Kat, who used to work in ASD research before taking the leap into grad school.  Autism spectrum disorders affect 1 in 88 children and are defined by deficits in social skills, communication and repetitive and restrictive interests