Tinca Polderman

burak çakmak / Adobe Stock The September equinox, when the Earth’s tilt causes nearly equal day and night across the globe, happened last week. As the Earth kept on turning, these Twitter threads had heads spinning about two influential studies, while folks from around the globe shared thoughts and images from the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG).

Introduction Mind wandering—the spontaneous distractions from the task at hand—is a useful property of the mind, for example, when reflecting on the past or planning the future (Buckner & Carroll, 2007); however, more frequent mind wandering can impact well-being in a negative way (Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010).

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is defined by both social (deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, nonverbal communication, and relationships) and non-social (stereotyped motor movements, insistence on sameness, and fixated intense interests) symptoms.