Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Autistic Brain Less Flexible at Taking on Tasks, Shows Study

A new brain-imaging study from the Stanford University School of Medicine claims that the brains of children with autism are relatively inflexible at switching from rest to task performance. Instead of changing to accommodate a job, connectivity in key brain networks of autistic children looks similar to connectivity in the resting brain. And the greater this inflexibility, the more severe the child's manifestations of repetitive and restrictive behaviors that ...

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