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Autistic brain less flexible at taking on tasks.»
Not exact matches
STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from
autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of
brain cells that make other
brain cells
less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-
autistic family member (left).
The abnormality thus detected consists in a
less deep fold in Broca's area, a region of the
brain specialized in language and communication, functions that are impaired in
autistic patients.
Situations that are normally socially rewarding fail to activate
brain - reward circuitry in
autistic children, Izuma adds, so they may also find the idea of a good social reputation
less rewarding.
By tracking the subjects» eye movements and
brains, Dalton and Davidson found that the
autistic children spent
less time fixing their gaze on the eyes in the photographs.