Researchers from the University of North Carolina made an interest discovery. They found out that the amygdala in toddlers with autism is 13 percent larger than the one in unaffected kids. It is believed that during the last part of the first year of life, some kids’ amygdala starts to grow. This could also explain why autism is so hard and sometimes imposible to diagnose during early infancy. Usually, a diagnosis of autism is deferred until the second year of life, when it becomes easier to identify the condition through observable behaviors. Before that and until now, diagnosis before the second or third year were inacurate and some times impossible.
This new discovery will enable us to detect the condition earlier, since the average age for diagnosis is 3.
Read the full article from CNN following this link.
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I´ve read the full article and I think it would be important to know if autism is related to genes or not.
I´ve read the full article and I think it would be important to know if autism is related to genes or not.
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