New tool triggers gene expression in select neurons in rodents
Injecting a virus toting snippets of RNA into the rodent brain enables researchers to express genes in specific neuron types.
Injecting a virus toting snippets of RNA into the rodent brain enables researchers to express genes in specific neuron types.
A woman with autism had to fight for her sterilization surgery, a mother’s tactics with her son on the spectrum generate controversy, and gifted students with autism have unique struggles.
A widely used treatment for anxiety can eliminate some of the cognitive and social problems seen in mice missing a copy of ARID1B, a gene associated with autism.
Drugs that block certain brain enzymes could help treat two conditions associated with autism.
Music therapy proves ineffective for autism, brain structures differ with 16p11.2 duplications and deletions, and mice missing NLGN3 may influence the sociability of their littermates.
Removing the Rett syndrome gene, MeCP2, from distinct cells and brain regions reveals hidden features of the condition.
Researchers have traced an unusual maternal behavior in female mice modeling Rett syndrome to a neural circuit that processes sound. They have also found a drug that reverses this behavior.
A mutation that prevents some amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, from entering the brain may lead to autism.
Three studies suggest that microglia, the brain’s immune cells, join forces with neurons in a sex-specific manner.
Cannabidiol alleviates seizures and restores social ability in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome by soothing overexcitement in the brain.