From the category archives:
A new study in the June 23rd release of the journal Neuron compared the brain images of 72 toddlers between the ages of 1 and 4 in an effort to establish if there were brain differences that may indicate Autism. Thirty of the children were typically developing, 29 were diagnosed with Autism, and 13 were [...]
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A study published last October in Cerebral Cortex, conducted by scientists from the University of Utah, Harvard Medical School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Brigham Young University showed decreased interhemispheric functional connectivity in autism. The study looked at 53 males with high functioning autism and 39 typically developing males from late childhood through early adulthood. The researchers assessed [...]
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In the following video, Susan Wilczynski, Director of the National Autism Center, interviews several specialists in the field and asks the question: What is Autism?“
At the end of this video, Dr. Susan Bookheimer, professor of cognitive neurosciences at the University of California, states:
In particular I think that we’re getting closer to a model of autism that [...]
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This past week, several articles in the news stand out as particularly relevant to the Autism Community. The first is about a study that looks at Autism and Peer Therapy. Since many children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have trouble relating to their peers, the study looked at whether Autistic children between the ages [...]
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The Guardian article ”Children with Autism Have Distinctive Patterns of Brain Activity” looks at the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. The research shows that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has a unique signature on the brain:
Kaiser and Pelphrey placed 62 children aged from four to 17 [...]
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