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Hyperplasticity in Autism Spectrum Disorder confers protection from Alzheimer's disease.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Sept 2014
Oberman Lindsay M, Pascual-Leone Alvaro
Abstract excerpt
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) currently affects approximately 1% of the population causing grave disability and necessitating a better understanding of the currently enigmatic etiology of these disorders. Recent data suggest that some patients with ASD may have a dysfunction in brain plasticity (specifically data from animal models and human studies suggest a propensity toward excessive amount of plasticity)....
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