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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

🧠 Researchers Discover Molecular Difference in Autistic Brains

「 a new study in The American Journal of Psychiatry has found that brains of autistic people have fewer of a specific kind of receptor for glutamate, the most common excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. The reduced availability of these receptors may be associated with various characteristics linked to autism 」

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains/

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Yale School of Medicine

Researchers Discover Molecular Difference in Autistic Brains

Brains of autistic individuals have fewer of a specific kind of glutamate receptor, supporting an idea that autism is driven by a signaling imbalance.
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