Sentences with phrase «of autistic brains»

Brainlike cell bundles grown in a lab may expose some of the biological differences of autistic brains.

Bundles of cells hint at biological differences of autistic brains.

Although the effects evaporated after a day or two, the study shows for the first time that these parts of the autistic brain «are not irretrievably broken,» Pelphrey says.

Gradually he built up a picture of the autistic brain from infancy to adulthood, zeroing in on a crucial distinction between those who have autism and those who don't.

The mutated genes also interfered with how the brain's layers and halves relate to one another, a phenomenon confirmed by previous imaging studies of the autistic brain.

Using interviews, blueprints, and accessible narrative, the author explains the workings of the autistic brain while introducing the life of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman famous for her animal rights advocacy.

Not exact matches

Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic - type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.

Also, for parents of potentially autistic children or Adhd or other brain diorders look up «Gut and psychology syndrome» with Dr. Natasha Campbell - McBride.

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As the autistic brain grows in the womb, it bursts with an overabundance of neurons.

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).

Miller has also seen physiological similarities in the brains of autistic savants and patients with frontotemporal dementia.

Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.

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.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

Autistic toddlers tend to have large brains for their age, and researchers have shown a correlation between the degree of excess growth and the severity of autism symptoms.

The authors suggest that the intricate balance between the signaling of neurons in these three brain regions may be crucial for normal social behavior in humans, and that disruption may contribute to various psychiatric conditions, including autistic spectrum disorders.

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.

Instead of changing to accommodate a job, connectivity in key brain networks of autistic children looks similar to connectivity in the resting brain.

These are the accumulated reflections from a lifetime spent observing the extraordinary ways the human brain can misfire and misbehave: a man who believes his own leg does not belong to him, an autistic woman with a gift for understanding animals, and the man who mistook his wife for a hat — the case that inspired one of Sacks's most famous books.

The involvement of this enzyme in susceptibility to oxidative stress, which has frequently been observed in autistic children, its association with gastrointestinal diseases — which often accompany autistic disorders — and its role in nerve development and neurotransmission mean it is an ideal candidate for deregulation of its expression to lead to the abnormal brain development observed in ASD.

«We had brain tissue from autistic individuals as young as 5 and as old as 45 and we found neuroglial inflammation in all of them.

Courchesne suspects that fetal brains become autistic due to a combination of genetic and environmental influences that strike during the second and possibly third trimesters, just as neurons are dividing.

As they develop, autistic brains bloom with an overabundance of neurons, Courchesne finds.

The extra neurons in the autistic brain probably send out a vast number of extra connections to other neurons.

When autistic children are born, Courchesne's research suggests, they have an abundance of neurons jammed into an average - size brain.

Past that age, Courchesne found, the rate of brain growth slowed in autistic children, falling behind that of ordinary children.

In a 2005 study in the Annals of Neurology, he found inflammation in immune - responsive brain cells of autistic patients.

Working with the brains of six normal children and seven autistic children ages 2 to 16, most of whom died of drowning, Courchesne has studied neurons under the microscope and even counted the number of neural cells in different tissue samples.

«New studies point to autism beginning in the womb,» said Courchesne, who, with colleagues, published one such widely reported study last year detailing disrupted brain development in post-mortem brains of autistic children.

This lack of interest in human speech not only correlated with the severity of a child's autistic symptoms, Kuhl notes, but with a lack of typical brain response to subtle changes in syllables, such as the switch from «ba» to «da.»

The most interesting thing about the results, she says, was not the correction of the autistic symptoms in the mice, but the clues the study provided about how the gut's microbial population may affect the brain and behavior.

One theory of autistic savantism suggests that during fetal development or early in life, some developmental abnormality affects the brain's left side, resulting in the difficulties that many autistic people have with words and social interaction, functions typically processed by the left hemisphere.

Functional imaging studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions important for language, face recognition and emotion.

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are linked to individual differences in brain anatomy in autistic children.

Interestingly, many of the genes identified in this study have been shown to have lower gene activity at the molecular level in autistic post mortem brain tissue samples.

Six of the 7 cases in the autistic group had neuron counts that met or exceeded the regression line of those in the control group, indicating that they had as many or more neurons than would be predicted from their large brain weights.

«We discovered gene - related disruption of circuits that connect the autistic brain's layers and hemispheres to each other,» explained Geschwind, who is director of the UCLA Neurogenetics Program and the Center for Autism Research and Treatment and co-director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA.

A May study in Nature found that 65 percent of autistic children share a set of mutations that may regulate genes known to influence communication among brain cells.

The 1 autistic child with a brain size within the 95 % CI of controls had among the greatest prefrontal neuron counts in the study, which raises the question of whether excess prefrontal neuron counts may be present in other autistic children who have near normal or smaller brain sizes.

However, the neural basis of early overgrowth remains unknown and can only be known from direct quantitative studies of the young postmortem autistic brain.

Also, our sample of autistic cases had brain weights typical of brain weights in larger postmortem samples of autistic children.

«It is this divide in language skills and use, which mirrors the opposite social profiles, that led us to explore how brains of individuals with Williams syndrome and autistic spectrum disorders process language,» says Fishman.

On the other hand, dysfunctional speech - related neural processing in the autistic brain might also denote a deficiency of oscillation coordination, based on temporal integration deficits, that reaches beyond the auditory modality.

Researchers at four study sites nationwide used a type of MRI scan to look at brain development in the younger siblings of autistic children, who are known to be at higher risk for autism themselves.

Although there is substantial evidence from neuroimaging studies that the brain of a child with autism is undergoing abnormal development, little is known about the underlying cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms that lead to the onset of autistic symptoms.

Researchers have found that some mothers of autistic children create antibodies to the brain tissue of their fetus, meaning the child is a born with a brain already developmentally imbalanced by immune destruction.

Supplements of omega 3 fatty acids or foods high on this nutrient is also recommended to autistic people as it is deficient in their case and hence can help their brain and bodily functions.

With the use of vitamins and other nutrients, autistic children can achieve higher brain function, improvement in sleep patterns and an increase in the function of the immune system.

What can we discover about the brains of autistic children that can help their teachers and parents?