Retinal neurochemistry; metabolic effects of epilepsy-linked genes; LAMP1 protein

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Scientists are increasingly proposing measures of retinal neurochemistry as biomarkers of clinical conditions, including autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia. Frontiers in Neuroscience Autistic children have lower blood levels of the protein ADAM8 than non-autistic children do, according to a small study. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment Autistic toddlers show altered neural responses to human speech. Journal of Neuroscience Online surveys are susceptible to fraudulent responses, but there are ways to identify and prevent such fakes. Spectrum reported on various efforts to flag online survey fraud last week. PLOS Global Public Health Autistic people are better than non-autistic people at interpreting the behavior of an autistic person in a workplace setting. Autism in Adulthood The National Association for Biomedical Research is challenging a conservation group's determination that long-tailed macaques, a primate commonly used in research, are endangered. Science Variants of genes -such as SCN1A and KCNA1 -that affect ion channels and cause epilepsy appear to bring about metabolic changes that contribute to seizure activity, according to a review. Journal of Neurochemistry Non-cancer therapies for genetic conditions take an average of 25 years to develop -from identification of the target to government approval of the treatment. Nature Frequency change: Autistic (top row) and non-autistic (bottom row) children have different EEG activity in response to natural speech.