A Key Brain Difference Linked to Autism Is Found for the First Time in Living People

• By: Isabella Backman Yale School of Medicine
• December 30th, 2024
• communication, diagnostic criteria, neurodiversity, quality of life, research, synapses, Winter 2025 Issue, Yale study
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For decades, researchers have relied on animal models and post-mortem subjects to help unlock the key to certain social and communication differences that are hallmarks of autism. Now, a new study has uncovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people that is linked to the central...