{"id":1885,"date":"2013-07-23T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2014-01-21T19:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T02:40:30","slug":"a-new-study-to-help-define-the-biological-basis-of-autism-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"A New Study to Help Define The Biological Basis of Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One short way to define autism used to be : &#8220;A different brain wiring&#8221;. The study mentioned below proves that this definition is absoutely correct.<\/p>\n<p>A new study reported yesterday (July 22, 2013) by <em>HealthDay News (Serena Gordon) <\/em>about how the autistic brain is wired. Results of the study were published July 22 online in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stronger connections in the brain was found related to some common signs of autism like: repetitive behavior, limited interests, and focusing on details rather than seeing the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the connections between different brain regions were found to be significantly shorter in individuals with autism compared to the control group.<\/p>\n<p>Even if this study is not offering an immediate solution to the autism condition, it will definitely help a better understanding of how the autistic brain is wired.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.health.com\/2013\/07\/22\/brain-wired-differently-in-those-with-autism-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One short way to define autism used to be : &#8220;A different brain wiring&#8221;. The study mentioned below proves that this definition is absoutely correct. A new study reported yesterday (July 22, 2013) by HealthDay News (Serena Gordon) about how the autistic brain is wired. Results of the study were published July 22 online in &#8230; <a title=\"A New Study to Help Define The Biological Basis of Autism\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1885\" aria-label=\"Read more about A New Study to Help Define The Biological Basis of Autism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,161,77,383,92,52],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autism","tag-brain-wiring","tag-health","tag-parenting","tag-research","tag-symptoms-of-autism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}