The Second Roche–Nature Medicine Translational Neuroscience Symposium on Autism and other developmental brain disorders was a resounding success. Ten years ago, if someone had suggested that we ...

Typical thinking might suggest the ... ‘We found that in the brain organoids from toddlers with profound autism, there are more cells and sometimes more neurons – and that’s not always ...

In two decades, the estimated rate of autism in children has gone from five in 10,000 to 110 in 10,000 âÄî more than 1 percent. Fatemi is one of hundreds of researchers across the country identifying ...

Study Links Gene Regulating Brain Circuit Formation to Autism and Seizures Jan. 8, 2025 — A new study offers insights into how the gene neuropilin2 contributes to the development of behavioral ...

Researchers have shown previously that excessive proliferation of the cells of the brain, which can cause macrocephaly, or large head size, is associated with autism. Now, the authors of a study ...

About four years ago, pathologist Matthew Anderson was examining slices of postmortem brain tissue from an individual with autism under a microscope when he noticed something extremely odd: T cells ...

If you were to turn and look at something, a typical ... of brain-plasticity-based training can have an effect," Merzenich tells WebMD. But programs that exist now are too complex for many ...

Figure 1: Parkinson’s disease primarily affects neurons in the brain that produce dopamine (depicted here). Now, RIKEN researchers have found that selective ...