Wednesday 16 January 2013

In Autism, Impaired Coordination of Brain Activity Involves Local as Well as Long-range Signaling

The local functional connectivity of the brain - the extent to which the activity of within a small brain region appears to be coordinated - is reduced in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A study based at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds this. Although it has been recognized for several years that functional connectivity between separate areas of the brain was reduced in ASD, ...

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