Way To Measure, Treat Autism Suggested By Brain Study (Medical News Today)
Researchers have pinpointed subtle deficits in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that they say could aid more precise diagnoses and perhaps improve treatment of ASD. The researchers discovered characteristic patterns of brain activity in people with ASD that reflect an inability to perceive themselves as social creatures.
P. Read Montague and colleagues published their findings in the February 7, 2008, issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press.
Their experiments involved asking groups of high-functioning people with ASD and normal people to play a "social trust" game as their brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In this widely used imaging technique, harmless magnetic fields and radio waves are used to map brain flow in brain regions, which reflects brain activity.
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07 Feb 2008, 10:17 am
