Parizad M. Bilimoria
Communications and Outreach Director, Conte Center
Harvard University
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The 2003 paper proposing signaling imbalance in autism
In 2003, John Rubenstein and Michael Merzenich first described the theory, now popular in autism, that the disorder reflects an imbalance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. Takao K. Hensch and Parizad M. Bilimoria review the paper and its impact on the field.
The 2003 paper proposing signaling imbalance in autism
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