Scott Myers

Associate professor
Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute at Geisinger

Scott Myers is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics at the Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute at Geisinger in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Spectrum

By David Ledbetter, Scott Myers

23 March 2021

5 min read

There are no autism-specific genes, just brain genes

There is not yet a single example of a gene that, when mutated, increases the likelihood of autism but not of other neurodevelopmental conditions, including intellectual disability.

Spectrum

There are no autism-specific genes, just brain genes

By David Ledbetter, Scott Myers

23 March 2021 | 5 min read

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Crisis de financiación en Argentina desata nueva ola de protestas

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Astrocytes

By Mac Shine

12 May 2026

3 min read

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The silent majority: How astrocytes shape the brain across scales

Melissa Cooper talks to Mac Shine about her new work that reveals how these glial cells—long dismissed as the brain’s housekeepers—wire together in precise, long-range networks that remodel in response to experience.