"A clue to the causes of autism and mental retardation lies in the synapse, the tiny intercellular junction that rapidly transfers information from one neuron to the next," begins a new report out yesterday from Medical News Today. Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine, with students from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts, found that dysfunction of a certain protein in the brain prevents the synapse function required for typical learning and memory. The findings are published in the August 18 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
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