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Oct 29, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Jill Adams |Thomas Jefferson

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Lead exposure is a risk to any human, but children are most vulnerable to the element's neurotoxicity, which can lead to developmental delays, learning difficulties and mood changes among other symptoms.

Oct 22, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Rachel Buckley |Jill Adams |Terrence Sejnowski |Calli McMurray

Recent articles Sex differences are an important and often understudied aspect of brain research. These essays explore new advances, issues and insights in the field. Get notified every time a new essay in this series is published. New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.

Aug 26, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Brendan Borrell |Olivia Gieger |Jill Adams

A 2017 Neuron paper from the lab of neuroscientist Thomas Südhof at Stanford University is to be retracted, according to an August update on Südhof’s website. The paper, whose first author is Lulu Y. Chen, a former postdoctoral researcher in Südhof’s lab, is titled “Conditional deletion of all neurexins defines diversity of essential synaptic organizer functions for neurexins.” It has been cited more than 150 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science.

Dec 18, 2023 | thetransmitter.org | Nicole Rust |Steve Ramirez |Joshua R. Sanes |Jill Adams

The brain may be chaotic. Does that mean our efforts to control it are doomed?

Apr 19, 2023 | thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Charles Choi |Jill Adams |Daisy Yuhas

Senior reporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Accounting for autism’s prevalence, Audio research news, Autism, Community, Diagnosis, Gender, Prevalence, Signs and Symptoms Listen to this story: Your browser doesn't support the audio element Download More than a quarter of autistic 8-year-olds in the United States have profound autism, according to a study published today in Public Health Reports.