Brain Activities Change As Individuals with Autism Age

Nadia Shanab | Uncategorized
15 Mar 2013

A study titled: “Developmental Meta-Analysis of the Funcitonal Neural Correlates of Autism Spectrum Disorders,” found that the brain activity changes as individuals with autism age.

They found that the change in brain activities keeps developing over time. This is the first study to show that.

“If the shift in the parts of the brain that autism affects as we age is identified, targeting treatments for patients with ASD will be better.”

Which means if the changes can be tracked, it will help finding a treatment for autism.

The study has been conducted by Daniel Dickstein, MD. FAAP director of the Pediatric Mood, Imaging and Neurodevelopment Program at Bradley Hospital.

Personal Observation

After working with spectrum kids for so many years, I was able to follow up and seen many of them growing up.  The progress is remarkable in most of them. I haven’t seen a single case where a kid regressed. In very very few cases kids stayed the same (the very low functioning/severe). The vast majority of kids learn, develop, and progress at different paces. I have seen them growing out of certain behaviors and aquiring the skills and capabilities we’ve been teaching them. It is amazing how they start at kindergarten and how they turn out before middle school. It is very heartwarming. It is my ultimate reward.

Once again, early intervention and endeavor in finding and applying the appropriate strategies and techniques will yield progress and improvement every single day.

To read the full article visit:

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130313123540.htm

nadia shanab

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