Sentences with phrase «set autistic brains»
Even normal brains can vary enormously in size and structure, so it was hard to see what, if anything, set autistic brains apart.
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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.
We have long known that autism itself is genetic, but by combining these different data sets (brain imaging and genetics) we can now identify more precisely which genes are linked to how the autistic brain may differ.
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.