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'Risky' Research

December 20, 2021

Building a bridge between neuroscience and immunology

October 14, 2022
… with a much higher risk of their children developing autism. Their work on this phenomenon, known as maternal … can temporarily reduce some of the behavioral symptoms of autism. Above: Associate Professor Gloria Cho  studies how … could one day lead to novel approaches to treating autism as well as depression or anxiety, using immunotherapy. …

How could Covid-19 and the body’s immune response affect the brain?

April 21, 2020
… by which infection in a pregnant mother can lead to autism-like symptoms in her child and how, counterintuitively, infection in people with some autism spectrum disorders can temporarily mitigate behavioral … her and Huh’s studies of how maternal infection leads to autism-like symptoms in their offspring, they are concerned …

In ‘minibrains,’ hindering key enzyme by different amounts has opposite growth effects

May 10, 2021
… abnormal brain development in Rett Syndrome, a devastating autism-like condition with a genetic underpinning. A common … in the brain are associated with schizophrenia and autism. The new findings model how varying levels of … The National Institutes of Health, The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative and the JPB Foundation supported …

Neural activity helps circuit connections mature into optimal signal transmitters

October 14, 2025
… develop, but also because many disorders such as epilepsy, autism, or intellectual disability can arise from aberrations … are associated with severe intellectual disability and autism. Moreover, the researchers tailored the … communication and function Read more Research Article Autism advances June 16, 2025 Research Feature Autism …

The model remodeler

March 14, 2022
… on both fundamental neuroscience and on disorders such as autism , it seemed high time to provide a primer . So here … discoveries about Fragile X syndrome, a genetic cause of autism and intellectual disability. He found that LTD can … for FMRP loss.   Littleton, too, has produced insight into autism by studying the consequences of mutation in the gene …

How Huntington’s disease affects different neurons

January 20, 2023
… that affect the striatum, such as Parkinson’s disease and autism spectrum disorder, the researchers say. Manolis … development of repetitive behaviors such as those seen in autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, and Tourette’s … in the striosomes of Huntington’s brains is also linked to autism. Additionally, many striosome neurons project to the …

Genes & Disease

December 14, 2020

Scientists identify neurons devoted to social memory

September 29, 2016
… investigating a possible link between social memory and autism. Some people with autism have a mutation of the receptor for a hormone called … Read more Research Article hippocampus , social memory , autism , CA1 , engram Print Share Related Articles Many … neurons devoted to social memory hippocampus social memory autism CA1 engram Memory Systems Higher Level Cognition …

Fundamental questions find advanced answers, approaches at Fall Symposium

October 18, 2019
… cognitive flexibility differ in mice engineered to harbor autism-associated genes. To flexibly control attention, the … implicated in some of the cognitive aberrations evident in autism or schizophrenia. Novel ideas about memory … cognition, including psychiatric conditions such as autism. In his talk he described his efforts to study …

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