Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University have discovered a significant relationship between the severity of a child’s autism and the way his or her brain processes different sight and sound stimuli. And fortunately, they can measure this brain activity in an easy, non-invasive way.... According to study leader Sophie Molholm, it’s possible that the autistic brain has a much more difficult time processing all of the information it receives from the body’s sensory systems. “We have to organize all of this incoming information, and it’s a big and important task for the brain,” Molholm tells Popular Science. “There’s possibly a break down in how this information is processed, and that may be related to some of the symptoms of autism.” .... The researchers used the cap to measure the brain activity of 43 children with autism (ages 6 to 17) as they were presented with various auditory and visual stimuli. Sure enough, the researchers noticed an inverse relationship between the subjects’ brain activity and the severity of their autism. The worse a child’s autism symptoms, the fainter the signals from the brain during multi-sensory integration. Or in other words, autism severity correlated with a slower time processing incoming information.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:11:46 +0000
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