Researchers could then compare the brains of autism patients with those from people without the condition, matched for age and gender, studying the activity of these candidate genes. (newscientist.com)
Yellow regions (top) show the enlarged white matter found in autism patients. (discovermagazine.com)
But the new findings, in mice, have already sparked conversations among physicians about how the drugs could be used to help autism patients. (scientificamerican.com)