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Auditory processing and morphological anomalies in medial geniculate nucleus of Cntnap2 mutant mice.
Behavioral neuroscience - 1 Dec 2015
Truong Dongnhu T, Rendall Amanda R, Castelluccio Brian C, Eigsti Inge-Marie, Fitch R Holly
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Genetic epidemiological studies support a role for CNTNAP2 in developmental language disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, specific language impairment, and dyslexia. Atypical language development and function represent a core symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with evidence suggesting that aberrant auditory processing-including impaired spectrotemporal processing and enhanced pitch perception-may...
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