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TPE2
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26 Nov 2008, 9:33 am

2ukenkerl wrote:

As I recall, most autistic kids start out having larger heads, some significantly larger. By adulthood, it balances out such that autistics as a whole average only about 2% more. That is like 1 ounce more brain matter(you have to allow for the skull, etc...).


What I have read is that autistic children have larger brains than NT, and that autistic adults have smaller brains.



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26 Nov 2008, 9:39 am

sunshower wrote:
I'm not sure about the size of the head thing :? but I am almost 100% sure that autism is linked in with either variations or damage to the frontal lobe after taking a cognitive psychology course this semester.

The frontal lobe controls pretty much all the functions which are affected by AS.


I'm not sure how accurate it is (seeing as the temporal lobes control mostly physical functions such as speech and hearing)but I recall reading that Temporal Lobe Epilepsy can also produce symptoms that mimic some aspects of autism/AS - which would give even more weight to a lobe-damage theory.