A failure to discriminate social from non-social touch at the circuit level may underlie social avoidance in autism
Trishala Chari, Ariana Hernandez, João Couto, Carlos Portera‐Cailliau
The paper investigates neural responses to social and non-social touch in mice, finding that autism model mice (Fmr1 KO) fail to distinguish social from non-social touch at the circuit level, potentially contributing to social avoidance.