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Disrupting cell-to-cell contact among developing neurons, even briefly, may alter their fates for good.
Disrupting cell-to-cell contact among developing neurons, even briefly, may alter their fates for good.
Researchers have mapped the migration patterns of neurons in the developing monkey brain and pinpointed when they establish their identities.
A brain scanner that simultaneously measures brain activity in two people holds promise for capturing social interactions and nonverbal communication.
Girls with autism may show fewer repetitive behaviors than boys because of structural differences in brain regions that control movement.
There are hints that transcranial magnetic stimulation, which uses electricity to change how brain cells function, might improve the symptoms of autism. But hopes are running way ahead of the facts.
A head-mounted device tracks both blood flow and electrical activity in the brains of moving rats.
Combining data from different brain scanners can lead to false findings if variation between the machines is not taken into account, according to a new study.
A mathematical model of the brain’s circuits shows how neurons stuck in overdrive could produce symptoms of autism. The model may reveal how autism-linked behaviors arise from underlying biology.
A region of the brain involved in interpreting social cues is unusually smooth in boys and men with autism, but normal in girls and women with the disorder.
Balls of neurons derived from skin cells of four boys with autism show shared alterations in biology and gene expression, researchers reported today in Cell. The findings finger FOXG1, a gene involved in brain development, as a player in autism.