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Tasty food isn’t Hugs Cafe’s only specialty! The cafe is employing 24 special needs adults to help cook and serve lunch daily.

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Focus on autism must broaden to include non-binary genders

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In this opinion piece by journalist Emily Brooks, she discusses the research done with LGBT+ folks in mind, and gives us food for thought.

Landmark Study Identifies Key Brain Difference In Autism

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Neuroscientists at Harvard and MIT have identified, for the first time, a link between the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA and symptoms of autism — a finding that may pave the way for new methods of treating and diagnosing the disorder. 

“This is the first connection in humans between a neurotransmitter in the brain and an autistic behavioral symptom,” Caroline Robertson, a postdoc at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the study’s lead author, said in a statement.