One area I'd love to see explored further is the potential for targeted interventions that could modify these synaptic structures to enhance cognitive and social functions. Given the plasticity of the brain, are there promising avenues for therapeutic approaches that could recalibrate these imbalances?
How do you define an imbalance and an intervention to "fix" them? It's important to use the correct terms to avoid biased frames and conclusions. In this case they're defining certain measurable features as anomalous among a population of people. An anomaly does not mean it is a deficiency that needs to be fixed with medical intervention.
Here (as in the article), by imbalance, we are referring to that “between inhibitory and excitatory signals in the brain” (i.e., the imbalance “in the number of excitatory and inhibitory synapses in the prefrontal cortex [that] may affect broader brain function and contribute to some of the cognitive and behavioral traits of autism.”
The interventions I am curious about are (per my question) “targeted” to “modify these synaptic structures to enhance cognitive and social functions.”
It’s puzzling to me that you would not only choose to interject the word fix, but also (even more inexplicably) to put it in quotes, as if it were my word choice rather than your own- and finally, to follow it with “It's important to use the correct terms to avoid biased frames and conclusions.” Indeed.