{"id":228292,"date":"2026-01-03T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains-may-explain-signaling-imbalance"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:18:31","slug":"molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains-may-explain-signaling-imbalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains-may-explain-signaling-imbalance","title":{"rendered":"Molecular difference in autistic brains may explain signaling imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains-may-explain-signaling-imbalance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to their neurotypical counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition associated with behavioral differences including difficulties with social interaction, restrictive or intense interests, and repetitive movements or speech. But it\u2019s not clear what makes autistic brains different.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a study in the <a href=\"https:\/\/psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/10.1176\/appi.ajp.20241084\" target=\"_blank\"><i>American Journal of Psychiatry<\/i><\/a> has found that the brains of autistic people have fewer of a specific kind of receptor for glutamate, the most common excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. The reduced availability of these receptors may be associated with various characteristics linked to autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to their neurotypical counterparts. Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition associated with behavioral differences including difficulties with social interaction, restrictive or intense interests, and repetitive movements or speech. But it\u2019s not clear what makes autistic brains different. Now, [\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-228292","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\/228292","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=228292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}