Natalia de Marco

Postdoctoral associate
NYU Langone Medical Center

Natalia de Marco is a postdoctoral associate in Gordon Fishell’s laboratory at New York University Langone Medical Center in the departments of cell biology and neural science.

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Spectrum

By Gordon Fishell, Natalia de Marco

22 November 2011

5 min read

A case for the importance of interneurons in autism

The etiology of autism may be best understood as an impairment of neuronal circuits, specifically interneurons that dampen signals in the brain, says neuroscientist Gordon Fishell.

Spectrum

A case for the importance of interneurons in autism

By Gordon Fishell, Natalia de Marco

22 November 2011 | 5 min read

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