"Autism Brain Net Encourages Study of Brains for Autism Research"
Fewer than 200 brains have been studied for autism research in the past three decades. That number pales in comparison to the tens of thousands studied for Alzheimer’s research. Autism Brain Net, a network of research institutions, collects, stores and allocates precious brain tissue samples. Patrick Hof, MD, a professor of neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, runs one of the four American nodes of Autism Brain Net, based at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He began his careers studying Alzheimer’s. “It’s only towards the end that they had that horrible disease,” says Dr. Hof. “Patient’s with Autism never had that chance.”