Mouse studies question ‘inhibition’ theory of autism

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 09:10 in Biology & Nature

A detailed study of four mouse models of autism challenges the most common assumption about what goes wrong in brain circuits to cause disease symptoms. The major hypothesis today — one supported by many animal studies — has been that neurons in the autistic brain receive too little inhibition or too much excitation, which causes […]

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