… presented evidence that in both Alzheimer’s and even some autism spectrum disorders, tau can still enable dysfunction … to emerge in Alzheimer’s disease models and in the autism disorder Dravet syndrome. Reducing the protein helps … he said, and reduces other symptoms in some but not other autism mouse models. The research suggests that lowering …
… connections, or synapses, leading to excessive growth. Autism spectrum disorders may at least in part be the result … at junctions called synapses. In a 2016 study of the autism-linked gene Shank3, which encodes a protein that helps …