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12 Mar 2016, 1:09 am

Study Identifies Potential Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder

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In contrast to prior strategies for finding treatments for autism, which have mainly focused on trying to correct the genetic abnormality itself, Lieber Institute scientists took a novel approach to understand the mechanism responsible for the cognitive and behavioral deficits


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13 Mar 2016, 1:44 am

if autism and schizophrenia are akin to a spectrum of abnormal neuronal pruning, I wonder how the drugs available now and projected for the future can definitively compensate for that essential defect?