… mouse brain, and uncovered large number of novel genes with parent-of-origin allelic expression differences, … Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize, the IPSEN Foundation Neuronal Plasticity prize, and the National Academy of Sciences’ …
… Deficiencies in synaptic development and change, or plasticity, have a role in many brain diseases such as autism … to an animal’s experience. By tinkering with different genes that modulate the degree of neuronal firing, they found …