Auditory cortex may develop early in autism
A well-studied brain response to sound appears earlier than usual in young children with autism.
A well-studied brain response to sound appears earlier than usual in young children with autism.
Many brain regions develop differently between people with 22q11.2 duplications and deletions, and those trajectories also vary with a person’s diagnosis.
What these genes do and how they affect autism depends on when in development they’re studied, despite what classic ‘gene ontology’ analyses say.
People’s brains have a larger network of inhibitory interneurons than mouse brains do, according to a new study. Changes to that network could contribute to autism or other conditions, says lead investigator Moritz Helmstaedter.
Inherited genetic factors for autism influence brain development, new studies of autistic children and their younger siblings reveal.
Increased white-matter maturation tracks with stronger language abilities later in childhood, but the relationship with cortical thickness is less clear.
The size of the cerebral cortex seems to depend on when neural progenitor cells multiply or differentiate into glial cells and neurons.
The new resource is the first to chart human brain development from before birth to 100 years of age.
Having a genetic predisposition to inflammation is linked to structural changes in brain regions implicated in neurodevelopmental conditions.
The ‘projectome’ charts axonal pathways between individual cells in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region implicated in autism.