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Autism notes. Smell: key marker?. How to find which ion channels are dysfunctional? Loss of pain and smell reception: mutation of gene SCN9A, encoding the voltage-gated sodium channel Na(v)1.7 (J. Weiss, Nature 2011).
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Smell: key marker? How to find which ion channels are dysfunctional? Loss of pain and smell reception: mutation of gene SCN9A, encoding the voltage-gated sodium channel Na(v)1.7 (J. Weiss, Nature 2011). Autism: overspecificmemory for images, words, numbers, facts, movements, except for impaired memory for olfaction, because many types of neural receptors important in olfaction are dysfunctional in ASD and ADHD?