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Utah Researchers Autism Discovery Mri - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 3rd Apr, 2014 - 11:46pm
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Utah Researchers Make Autism Discovery Through MRI
Very interesting discovery made in Utah, more you know about Autism the closer we get in finding a cure.
QUOTE SALT LAKE CITY -- A unique MRI scan of the brains of children who have autism might be the first step in developing an actual biological marker for the disorder. University of Utah researchers have tracked changes in communication between the two hemispheres of the brain.
When KSL visited the Carmen Pingree Center for Children with Austism Monday, 4-year-old Spencer Cline, who has what is called "high-functioning autism," Was responding to therapy designed specifically for his level of autism.
Dr. Brian Petersen, who works at the Carmen Pingree Center, says autistic children have difficulty focusing on a face, especially the eyes.
"Children with autism look at faces, but not in the same way you and I do with that triangle of eyes and mouth," Petersen says. "They may be trailing off into the clavicle or up into the hairline and not really be reading the cues."
The facial example is among many socialization signals that are dispatched to the wrong places in the brain. Now, using an MRI, a University of Utah research team has visually monitored those miscues in two-second intervals, as measured in blood flow.
The scans are significant because they not only look at the brain as a whole, but they look specifically at the connection between the right and left hemispheres in the brains of young autistic males.
The images of a normal brain show very strong connections with brighter red and yellow colors, while blue and purple show weaker connections. In the scans of young autistic patients, the colors are much weaker...
When KSL visited the Carmen Pingree Center for Children with Austism Monday, 4-year-old Spencer Cline, who has what is called "high-functioning autism," Was responding to therapy designed specifically for his level of autism.
Dr. Brian Petersen, who works at the Carmen Pingree Center, says autistic children have difficulty focusing on a face, especially the eyes.
"Children with autism look at faces, but not in the same way you and I do with that triangle of eyes and mouth," Petersen says. "They may be trailing off into the clavicle or up into the hairline and not really be reading the cues."
The facial example is among many socialization signals that are dispatched to the wrong places in the brain. Now, using an MRI, a University of Utah research team has visually monitored those miscues in two-second intervals, as measured in blood flow.
The scans are significant because they not only look at the brain as a whole, but they look specifically at the connection between the right and left hemispheres in the brains of young autistic males.
The images of a normal brain show very strong connections with brighter red and yellow colors, while blue and purple show weaker connections. In the scans of young autistic patients, the colors are much weaker...
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