Communication problems in the brain

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 01/19/2010 - 23:00

(University Hospital Heidelberg) For brain cells to communicate, the contacts to each other must function. The protein molecule neuroligin-1 plays an important role in this as it stimulates the necessary maturation processes at the contact sites (synapses) of the nerves.

A synaptic maturation disorder is possibly involved in the development of autism.

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