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Understanding the Role of Smell in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Explore the link between autism and sense of smell, including the impact of ion channel dysfunction on smell reception and the role of gene mutation SCN9A. Could overspecific memory in autism be related to olfaction impairment?

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Understanding the Role of Smell in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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  1. Autism notes

  2. Smell: key marker? How to find which ion channels are dysfunctional? Loss of pain and smell reception: mutation of gene SCN9A, encoding the voltage-gated sodium channel Na(v)1.7 (J. Weiss, Nature 2011). Autism: overspecificmemory for images, words, numbers, facts, movements, except for impaired memory for olfaction, because many types of neural receptors important in olfaction are dysfunctional in ASD and ADHD?

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