{"id":215906,"date":"2025-06-14T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/different-genetic-roots-of-autism-may-lead-to-shared-brain-activity-and-behaviors"},"modified":"2025-06-14T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:17:25","slug":"different-genetic-roots-of-autism-may-lead-to-shared-brain-activity-and-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/different-genetic-roots-of-autism-may-lead-to-shared-brain-activity-and-behaviors","title":{"rendered":"Different genetic roots of autism may lead to shared brain activity and behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/different-genetic-roots-of-autism-may-lead-to-shared-brain-activity-and-behaviors3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School suggests that different genetic forms of autism may lead to similar patterns in brain activity and behavior. The findings were recently published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-025-01965-8\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using brain-recording technology, the research team observed neurons across the entire brain to explore whether different genetic forms of autism share patterns and establish commonalities in neural responses. They found that, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genetic+differences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic differences<\/a>, various forms may show a similar unique pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain activity <\/a>\u2014also known as a brain signature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope this research will serve as a stepping stone linking genetic differences and behavioral atypicalities,\u201d said Jean-Paul Noel, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School suggests that different genetic forms of autism may lead to similar patterns in brain activity and behavior. The findings were recently published in Nature Neuroscience. Using brain-recording technology, the research team observed neurons across the entire brain to explore whether different genetic forms of autism share [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215906","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}