Early treatment with the drug may allow it to correct some
impairment in neural development that contributes to ASD - like behavior in mice, the researchers said.
«This process may therefore play a key
role in neural development and central nervous system function in adults, as well as in chronic brain disorders and various acute brain injuries.»
Now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Diering's laboratory focuses on the role of
sleep in neural development.
Her research group will continue to study these proteins and the role they
play in neural development and fragile X syndrome — work that's likely to influence other fields of inquiry in autism and beyond.
But new research, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that genetics dictate the organization of a chimp's brain much more rigidly than in humans, allowing the environment to play a larger
role in our neural development.
He is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; his laboratory focuses on the role of
sleep in neural development.
A leading expert in neural movement control, Jessell, a U.K. native who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, conducted pioneering studies that identified mechanisms involved
in the neural development and organization of the spinal cord.
Ophthalmologist Stefano Bonini at the University of Rome Campus Bio-Medico and his collaborators applied drops containing nerve growth factor (a protein involved
in neural development) to the eyes of rats with induced glaucoma.
And it's precisely some of those genes, the ones involved
in neural development, that appear on the list of differences between the chimp and human genomes.
Quantitative analysis of bristle number in Drosophila mutants identifies genes involved
in neural development.