The average adult human brain weighs 1,375 grams, but Courchesne encountered one 3 - year - old autistic boy
whose brain weight was estimated at 1,876 grams.
Not exact matches
Over the following year, those
whose brains showed less activation in areas known to respond to natural rewards like foods ended up gaining more
weight — though only if they had a particular genetic makeup.
The study's results suggested that girls
whose brains showed less reward system activation to foods also gained more
weight — if they had the DRD2 Taq1AQ1 or the DRD4 7 + repeat alleles.
Studies
whose endpoints were surrogate outcomes (e.g.,
weight loss, LDL cholesterol, and
brain - derived neurotrophic factor) that themselves are predictors of clinical events were not considered to be clinical outcomes studies.