On August 6, a group of Princeton University researchers published a paper called “The Cerebellum, sensitive periods, and autism” in the neuroscience journal Neuron. The team proposed a new theory stating that an injury to the cerebellum during its early years potentially hinders its ability to process information that influence the development of other brain regions and leads to "developmental diaschisis," whereby a loss of function in one region of the brain leads to problems in another. In essence, the fatal blow to the cerebellum is a crucial indicator that something is about to go wrong in other parts of the brain, which may ultimately lead to autism.