http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/7013 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/middle-eastern-families-yield-intriguing-clues-autism <!--paging_filter--><p>Research involving large Middle Eastern families, sophisticated genetic analysis and groundbreaking neuroscience has implicated a half-dozen new genes in <a title="" href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm">autism</a>. More importantly, it strongly supports the emerging idea that autism stems from disruptions in the brain’s ability to form new connections in response to experience – consistent with autism’s onset during the first year of life, when many of these connections are normally made.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/middle-eastern-families-yield-intriguing-clues-autism">read more</a></p> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:27:58 -0400 404132862 20310 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu