Neto2 and Autism
Today's brief post should be good for our Canadian reader AJ. It looks like there are clever researchers close by at the Weston Brain Institute, in Toronto. It is indeed a small world because many years ago I worked in Australia in a small company with one of the same Westons, who by coincidence is now the boss of the large UK company, I earlier worked for as a student and the Westons subsequently bought. There are two Weston foundations, one in Canada and one in England, together with assets of a few billion dollars/pounds/euros. One of their areas of interest is neuroscience. One of the Toronto Weston Brain Institute’s researchers wrote her PhD thesis on an aspect I skipped over in my previous already complex post on KCC2, the role of Neto2. She also knows about neuroligin2 (NL2). Here is her PhD thesis:- Mechanisms of Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity: the Regulation of KCC2 So what would be nice would be to apply some Weston brain/financial capacity to ...