Mice reveal how top autism gene may disrupt brain structure
Mutations in an autism gene called ANK2 may alter brain wiring by causing the growth of excess neuronal connections.
Mutations in an autism gene called ANK2 may alter brain wiring by causing the growth of excess neuronal connections.
The brains of some autistic children may not adapt to repeated touch or sound, even after several minutes.
Mice that lack a segment of chromosome 22 — a mutation associated with autism — have unusually sparse connections between brain regions.
Autistic women show unusually strong connections, and autistic men unusually weak ones, between two brain regions.
A new technique leads to neuron cultures of consistent quality, enabling scientists to study how autism mutations alter neurons.
A growing body of evidence suggests that autism involves atypical communication between brain regions, but how and where in the brain this plays out is unclear.
Two imaging techniques together reveal architectural features of the brains of preterm infants.
The brains of people with autism have unusually strong connections in some regions and weak ones in others.
The brains of autistic children show few differences from those of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or even of controls.
A flexible electrode array can record the firing of hundreds of rat neurons for months on end.