New Research Into Autism
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Research at the Baby Lab Project at Uppsala University in Stockholm is studying electromagnetic brain activity in babies by attaching electrodes to their heads whilst they are playing with different objects.
The aim of this research is to tell which part of the brain does what when the child interacts with the world around him. This will help the researchers to discover the differences between brains in those with autism and others. In order to do this they had to develop special light electrodes so that they were not too heavy for the baby.
One of the reasons for the research is to be able to diagnose autistic children sooner and more easily. This will enable treatment to start earlier, currently it is practically impossible to diagnose before the age of 18 months and sometimes it can take much longer, even into adulthood.
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Autie Mommy says...
There was a report put out a couple of years ago stating that it has been found that children/adults with Autism do indeed have a different brain than neuro-typical people do. In the study conducted it was found that the “bridge” between the two halves of the brain is missing in autistic people and that they therefore develope both sides of the brain equally rather that becoming “left brained” or “right brained”. This missing bridge would also explain the problems with processing speech, emotions, and other such related problems that are common among autistic people.