Friday, October 20, 2006

Brain Difference in Autistic People


Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use New Imaging Technique To Discover Connection Differences in Brains of People With Autism

PITTSBURGH—Using a new form of brain imaging known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), researchers in the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that the so-called white matter in the brains of people with autism has lower structural integrity than in the brains of normal individuals. This provides further evidence that the anatomical differences characterizing the brains of people with autism are related to the way those brains process information.

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