University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have documented changes in the brain's emotional center that may explain the social impairment seen in children with autism. The UW authors found that males with autism who spent the least time looking at a person's eyes in photographs had a much smaller amygdala - the almond-shaped danger-detecting region of the brain - than males without autism. Males with a small amygdala also had difficulty distinguishing any face showing an emotion from those with neutral expressions, researchers say.
And in a separate French study, scientists identified a gene that may explain why some people develop autism. child-autism-parent-cafe.com
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