Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Autism Tied to Premature Brain Growth

The journey toward determining ways to detect autism earlier on shows development. Outcome of a long-term magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research in Chapel Hill, North Carolina has validated that early overgrowth of the brain of autistic children before reaching the age of two.
the year 2005, Heather Cody Hazlett, Ph.D., from the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, together with her colleagues, did a comparison of the brains of 59 children diagnosed with autism to 38 other children who serve as control group or those without autism.

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