A team of epidemiologists and neurologists from Karolinska Institutet, Tilburg University and the University of Gothenburg has found a possible genetic link between synesthesia and autism.

According to a press release, synesthesia commonly runs in families ... As Price reports, despite the suspected genetic link, researchers have not been able to use genomic analysis to identify ...

“It provides a fascinating suggestion of a link between particular genetic variations and hyperconnectivity in the synesthetic brain.” Synesthesia is thought to affect around 4 percent of the ...

Most researchers believe synesthesia has genetic roots. It runs in families ... but synesthetes retain some of these links. Yet environment clearly plays a role too. Some people develop ...

This finding doesn’t contradict data showing that synesthesia is linked to genetic predisposition ... work to be done establishing the exact link between synesthesia and associative learning ...

may have a genetic component. Many individuals with synesthesia report having family members who also experience some form of the condition, suggesting a hereditary link. Understanding that what ...

IRA FLATOW: Ed, how does this fit into what we already know about synesthesia? ED HUBBARD: So I think that this is a really nice bridge between the genetic level and what ... So your brain is primed ...

Synesthesia is an unusual anomalous mix of ... One interesting outcome of the study is that there seems to be a genetic link for TTS as one-third of participants apparently had close family ...

Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science ... among individuals in terms of neural plasticity, genetic polymorphism, and environmental factors ...