New discovery in autism-related disorder reveals key mechanism in brain development and disease

Monday, January 14, 2013 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

A new finding in neuroscience for the first time points to a developmental mechanism linking the disease-causing mutation in an autism-related disorder, Timothy syndrome, and observed defects in brain wiring, according to a new study. These findings may be at the heart of the mechanisms underlying intellectual disability and many other brain disorders.

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