{"id":203129,"date":"2025-01-05T02:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-key-brain-difference-linked-to-autism-is-found-for-the-first-time-in-living-people"},"modified":"2025-01-05T02:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:14:40","slug":"a-key-brain-difference-linked-to-autism-is-found-for-the-first-time-in-living-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-key-brain-difference-linked-to-autism-is-found-for-the-first-time-in-living-people","title":{"rendered":"A Key Brain Difference Linked to Autism Is Found for the First Time in Living People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-key-brain-difference-linked-to-autism-is-found-for-the-first-time-in-living-people2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A key brain difference linked to autism has been found for the first time in living people.<\/p>\n<p>Using a sophisticated imaging technology, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that the brains of autistic adults have fewer synapses \u2014 crucial junctions between nerve cells and other cells \u2014 than the brains of neurotypical individuals: bit.ly\/3NK9gGQ Yale.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Autistic brains have fewer synapses compared to neurotypical brains, PET scans show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key brain difference linked to autism has been found for the first time in living people. Using a sophisticated imaging technology, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that the brains of autistic adults have fewer synapses \u2014 crucial junctions between nerve cells and other cells \u2014 than the brains of neurotypical individuals: bit.ly\/3NK9gGQ Yale. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203129","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\/203129","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}