Mouse Studies Show 'Inhibition Theory' of Autism Wrong

Mouse Studies Show ‘Inhibition Theory’ of Autism Wrong

24th January, 2019

Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, School Psych, SLP

[Source: Medical X-Press]

A detailed study of four mouse models of autism challenges the most common assumption about what goes wrong in brain circuits to cause disease symptoms.

The major hypothesis today—one supported by many animal studies—has been that neurons in the autistic brain receive too little inhibition or too much excitation, which causes hyperexcitability or increased “spiking.”

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