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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

NEWS: Brains of Autistic Children Bigger


I am not up on my autism news, hopefully I will never have to be, but I found it pretty amazing that this research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical School is finding children with autism have larger brains even up to the age of 5.

These researchers apparently already knew that children with autism had larger-sized brains at the age of 2, but this new paper they published reads this enlargement continues on for more years to come. Their research, albeit not with a large group (only 59 kids), shows that the brains of these children started growing extra "matter" as (possibly) early as before the babies turned one.

So whereas people who feel their doctor(s) may be over-diagnosing and perhaps their child is not autistic can now have one test done to rule it out or prove the doctor correct.

The CDC's site reads that one in every 10 children is born with the disorder now, hopefully places like the University of North Carolina can continue their research with larger groups and find undeniable indicators at an early stage to help treat, and ultimately find a prevention or cure for, autism.

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