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I thought that the list of cognitive impairments sounds like a laundry list of ASD symptoms, and indeed, at least some researchers seem to believe that there's

I thought that the list of cognitive impairments sounds like a laundry list of ASD symptoms, and indeed, at least some researchers seem to believe that there's a connection between Autism and cerebellum dysfunction: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677555/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677555/

heyoni 3y ago
There are also a number of rare diseases whose mutations affect cortical neurons and have some overlap in their symptoms with ASD.
alan-hn 3y ago
Shank3 is a scaffolding protein highly associated with deficits seen in ASD, it is highly expressed in cerebellar granule cells