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Recent human imaging and postmortem studies have reported that abnormal cortical circuitry and function constitutes the key neuropathology for aberrant behavior noted in autistic patients.Here we conducted intensive auditory behavioral training in young rodent autism model(perinatal exposure to antidepressants)to evaluate the potential for recovery of the behavioral,neuroanatomical,and neurophysiological pathology.We show that information processing deficits within the primary auditory cortex induced by early-life antidepressant exposure can be reversed to almost normal levels after behavioral training.Large-scale neuroanatomical changes within serotonergic and dopaminergic neuromodulatory systems,and changes in parvalbumin-positive labeling indexing the functionality of this very important class of inhibitory GABAergic neurons are also reversed,suggesting continued plasticity and reversibility of neural network reorganization after early-life drug manipulation.These findings bear important clinical implications for behavioral interventions in autistic patients.