Researching the autistic brain
Autism brain science "has moved stunningly fast," says Kevin Pelphrey, an associate professor of child psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center. "We've fundamentally moved around a corner where we will move much faster now." Pelphrey knows parents are impatient; they desperately need help today. Yet, as the father of an autistic child, Pelphrey says, the latest research also gives him hope for therapies that can reshape children's brains, not just as babies but into adolescence. Ref. Source 4
I hope that they can find both a cause and a reversal method or at least a way to get the brain to pick up the 'loose ends' it hasn't quite established. In the mean time Parents with Autistic children and no respite suffer daily.
Brain maps highlight autism disorders
Brain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individuals, scientists report. Ref. Source 2u.