Registration is now open for the 2015 Cortical Connections Conferenceat the Queensland Brain Institue, Austraila!

 In order for the human brain to function, it must be wired correctly during brain development. How this occurs is one of the fundamental questions of neuroscience.

The level of activity of a cellular signaling pathway correlates with the degree of social and cognitive impairments in children with an autism-linked genetic abnormality, according to unpublished research presented Sunday at the 2013 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego. Biomarkers are objective biological measurements — such as the level of a certain chemical in the blood — that would enable scientists to reliably identify individuals with autism or predict how these individuals will fare over the long term. Researchers have struggled to

The largest genetic analysis yet conducted of people lacking a brain structure called the corpus callosum shows that the condition shares many risk factors with autism.The corpus callosum is the thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.

A large-scale, international study on the genes involved in epilepsy has uncovered 25 new mutations on nine key genes behind a devastating form of the disorder during childhood.