LARAMIE, Wyo., Sept. 10 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
Just as a city cannot be understood by studying individual buildings without considering
the roads connecting them, the brain cannot be fully comprehended by examining individual
neurons without studying how they work together as a network.
This is how Rongsong Liu, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Mathematics and Statistics, views the work she and other researchers conducted using graph theory to better
understand autism spectral disorder (ASD) in mice. Graph theory is a mathematical
approach for studying networks.
The study found an altered prefrontal neuronal network in Shank3 mice, an autism mouse
model. Compared to wild-ty...