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Researchers Probe Source of Language Impairment in Autism
Researchers Probe Source of Language Impairment in Autism
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21 August 2012
NEWS Researchers probe source of language impairment in autism Bone marrow transplant curbs autism symptoms in mice VIEWPOINT Genes and environment are two-way street in autism risk IN BRIEF Clinical research: Autism common in rare syndrome Molecular mechanisms: Rett protein loss shrinks adult brains Cognition and behavior: Serotonin may alter emotion response TOOLBOX Researchers recreate blood-brain barrier in dish BLOG Broken mirrors Missed patterns
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published 31 July in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that a bone marrow transplant, which restores the animals' immune system, alleviates their anxiety and repetitive behavior.
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Broken mirrors
Research into the ability of children with autism to imitate has produced contradictory results: Some studies find that those with the disorder have difficulty imitating people, whereas others find no problems. A new study explores why.
Missed patterns
The assumption in some published overviews of autism tends to be that all of the problems relevant to the disorder can be found at synapses, the junctions between neurons. But it's difficult not to notice the striking number of chromatin-associated genes that have emerged as candidate risk factors over
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