![John Lukens, PhD, of UVA's Department of Neuroscience and its Center for Brain Immunology and Glia, in the lab with graduate student Catherine R. Lammert. They and their colleagues were responsible for the autism discovery.](https://makingofmedicine.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/John_Lukens_05HR_DA1-351x244.jpg)
A Source of Lifelong Behavior Issues
The discovery could have implications for autism and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
The discovery could have implications for autism and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.