Monday, October 29, 2018

Autism Study Finds Unusual Patterns of Amygdala Connection with Other Brain Regions

A new MRI study of autistic kids has discovered unique patterns of neural communication in the area of the brain involved in processing social information.

After studying MRI scans of school-age children’s brains, researchers at San Diego State University discovered that in children with autism, the mid-brain structure called the amygdala only weakly connects with some regions of the brain — and more strongly with others — when compared with typically developing children of the same...


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