{"id":149377,"date":"2022-11-03T03:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T08:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/brain-changes-in-autism-are-far-more-sweeping-than-previously-known-study-finds"},"modified":"2022-11-03T03:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T08:23:34","slug":"brain-changes-in-autism-are-far-more-sweeping-than-previously-known-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/brain-changes-in-autism-are-far-more-sweeping-than-previously-known-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Brain changes in autism are far more sweeping than previously known, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-changes-in-autism-are-far-more-sweeping-than-previously-known-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain changes in autism are comprehensive throughout the cerebral cortex rather than just particular areas thought to affect social behavior and language, according to a new UCLA-led study that significantly refines scientists\u2019 understanding of how autism spectrum disorder (ASD) progresses at the molecular level.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published today in <i><i>Nature<\/i>,<\/i> represents a comprehensive effort to characterize ASD at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/molecular+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular level<\/a>. While neurological disorders like Alzheimer\u2019s disease or Parkinson\u2019s disease have well-defined pathologies, autism and other <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/psychiatric+disorders\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">psychiatric disorders<\/a> have had a lack of defining pathology, making it difficult to develop more effective treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The new study finds brain-wide changes in virtually all of the 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cortical+regions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cortical regions<\/a> analyzed, regardless of whether they are higher critical association regions\u2014those involved in functions such as reasoning, language, social cognition and mental flexibility\u2014or primary sensory regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain changes in autism are comprehensive throughout the cerebral cortex rather than just particular areas thought to affect social behavior and language, according to a new UCLA-led study that significantly refines scientists\u2019 understanding of how autism spectrum disorder (ASD) progresses at the molecular level. The study, published today in Nature, represents a comprehensive effort to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}