{"id":73990,"date":"2017-11-29T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/in-autism-too-many-brain-connections-may-be-at-root-of-condition"},"modified":"2018-01-13T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T18:07:38","slug":"in-autism-too-many-brain-connections-may-be-at-root-of-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/in-autism-too-many-brain-connections-may-be-at-root-of-condition","title":{"rendered":"In autism, too many brain connections may be at root of condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-autism-too-many-brain-connections-may-be-at-root-of-condition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mutations in a gene linked to autism in people causes neurons to form too many connections in rodents, according to a new study. The findings suggest that malfunctions in communication between brain cells could be at the root of autism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/in-autism-too-many-brain-connections-may-be-at-root-of-condition\/\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mutations in a gene linked to autism in people causes neurons to form too many connections in rodents, according to a new study. The findings suggest that malfunctions in communication between brain cells could be at the root of autism. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73990","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75209,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73990\/revisions\/75209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}