New Study Results on Autism! Toddler brain difference linked to autism - CNN.com

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Toddler brain difference linked to autism - CNN.com

(CNN)

-- The size of a specific part of the brain may help experts pinpoint when autism could first develop, University of North Carolina researchers report.

The amygdala helps individuals process faces and emotions.

Using MRI brain scans, researchers found that the area of the brain called the amygdala was, on average, 13 percent larger in young children with autism, compared with control group of children without autism. In the study, published in the latest Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers scanned 50 toddlers with autism and 33 children without autism at age 2 and again at age 4. The study adjusted for age, sex and IQ.
"We believe that children with autism have normal-sized brains at birth but at some point, in the latter part of the first year of life, it [the amygdala] begins to grow in kids with autism. And this study gives us insight inside the underlying brain mechanism so we can design more rational interventions," said lead study author Dr. Joseph Piven.
A normal-sized amygdala helps a person process faces and emotions, behavior commonly known as joint attention.

 

[Demi4God]

The key to all these findings is action. We as parents are waiting. This is taking such an act of God to get Autism pinned down. I really do not know who to believe anymore. The more seminars I attend,and the more parents I try and share my story with makes me realize each Autistic label is maybe different and caused by so many different things. You meet others,they tell you it's this and that and on the other hand drs tell you it just isn't fact. Sighs so big here.

 

[cuddlycutebaby]

This is a very good research about autism. I strongly believe that a child with autism need full care.