Studying a rare disorder that also causes autism in 25-50 percent of affected patients, new research supports the emerging idea that autism results from disrupted brain “connectivity” causing improper information flow. These abnormalities might be reversible with rapamycin or rapamycin-like drugs, which the studies researchers will be bringing to clinical trial later this year.
More evidence that autism is a brain ‘connectivity’ disorder
January 10th, 2010 by Newspublichealth.com
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