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A Kaiser Permanente Southern California cohort involving 294,937 children linked extreme prenatal nighttime heat to autism diagnosis by age 5, with stronger associations at the 99th percenti…
Read articleA 2026 Spanish Rett Syndrome Behavior Questionnaire validation preprint found strong test-retest reliability across 51 caregivers, including an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.907 an…
Read articleA 2026 Leigh syndrome study combined a cell-type-specific deep-learning screen with a 2,250-drug yeast survival screen and found the same drug family from both directions: azoles, with talar…
Read articleA 2026 developing Human Connectome Project analysis of 438 full-term neonates found that the newborn cortex already had an adult-like folding hierarchy: gyri connected most strongly to other…
Read articleA 2026 Human Connectome Project MRI study linked asymmetric anterior cingulate cortex sulcal pattern to lower delay discounting in 390 healthy young adults: asymmetric ACC morphology predict…
Read articleA 166-child resting-state fMRI study found that clinician-observed autism severity, not ADHD severity, tracked connectivity strength between a left middle frontal gyrus node and the posterio…
Read articleA 2026 Nature Communications study found that Mecp2 overexpression deregulated approximately 5,000 genes in mouse neural progenitor cells but only approximately 500 mostly small-change genes…
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