It is the first time that synaptic density has been measured in living people with autism.
Furthermore, the research team found that the fewer synapses an individual had, the more features of autism they exhibited.
The findings appear in Molecular Psychiatry.
As simple as our findings sound, this is something that has eluded our field for the past 80 years, says James McPartland, a professor in the Yale Child Study Center and the study’s principal investigator.
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