Takeaways from SfN 2018
After the presentation of more than 14,000 abstracts over five days, the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego ended last week.
Society for Neuroscience 2018
After the presentation of more than 14,000 abstracts over five days, the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego ended last week.
Administering a cholesterol drug alongside an antibiotic eases atypical behavior and restores the signaling balance in the brains of people with fragile X syndrome.
A monkey-sized jacket embedded with motion sensors — similar to technology used to animate creatures in movies — is helping researchers develop the common marmoset as a model for studying human social behavior.
A team of researchers is trialing a fast approach to autism drug development: simultaneously testing candidates in people and in mice.
Lattice-like structures that surround neurons may be overly abundant — or scarce — in brain regions of three autism mouse models.
A cellular pathway that helps neurons grow and move during fetal development may drive the changes in head size in some autistic people.
Specialized neurons called chandelier cells, which dampen brain signals, make unusually few connections in the brains of people with autism.
A tiny fraction of the connections between brain regions can identify an individual.
A new technique transforms the previous broad-brush picture of a brain region into a pointillist masterpiece of neuronal subpopulations associated with specific activities.
Mice with different genetic backgrounds have distinct behavioral profiles — and that may muddle findings from mouse research.