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[SC8-1] No differences in synaptic density in twins with autism and their non-autistic co-twins. However, are differences in SV2A binding potential in autistic brains a matter of white matter?

*Gina Griffioen-Järfalk^1,2, Martin Bolin¹, Vladimir Stephanov¹, Simon Cervenka^1,6, Miguel Castelo-Branco⁷, Ricardo Martins⁷, Johan Lundberg¹, Chirag Mehra⁸, Oliver Howes⁸, Declan Murphy⁸, Sven Bölte^1,3,4,5, Lars Farde¹, Jacqueline Borg^1,2 (1. 1.Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet and Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, 2. 2.Center for Cognitive and Computational Neuropsychiatry (CCNP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 3. 3.Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Stockholm, Sweden, 4. 4.Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, 5. 5.Curtin Autism Research Group, School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia, 6. 6. Department of Medical Sciences, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 7. Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 8. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK)

Keywords:Autism, synaptopathology, Positron Emission Tomography, connectivity, twin study