The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that new brain imaging studies of high-functioning adults with autism are revealing yet more information about how the autistic brain is different from that of typical folks.
Scans done by Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging show that various regions in the brains of high-functioning autistics don't communicate with each other as well as they do in typical people's brains. This basic breakdown could help explain everything from why people with autism often lack common-sense reasoning to why they don't understand emotions and have trouble recognizing faces.This research also included tests to determine with autistic adults could tell whether someone was lying (they couldn't). The research group suggested that, by pinpointing problems in the autistic brain, it might become easier to determine a treatment. Of course, as always, the devil is in the details: so far, no specific treatment approach has been suggested or tested.
I saw this too Lisa. Very exciting, and it makes a lot of sense. The underconnectivity explains that many people with autism don’t have the tools to understand the world around them, or even within them. I hope there comes a kind when they can adjust this so that the connections can be made — much like we give insulin to a diabetic to make up for the fact that their bodies don’t handle glucose properly.
Hi I’m writing to you as a very concerned aunt of a autistic teenager he’s 17 and lost his mother( my sister) 2 years ago . He started having he’s explosive meltdowns at 15 years old sometimes 5-6 times a day my sister was getting beaten really badly by him . After she passed away he still continued with the meltdowns but they have been cut down to 1-2 a week now because of alot of therapy . My parents Are in there 60’s and have taken full custody off Daniel but they also have been beaten up by him too. My parents are very frail people and I worry sick that he could do something to them . He’s 130 kg and 190 cm and my parents are very petite people . His father is a chronic alcoholic and always stoods him up when he’s supposed to see him . My parents feel bad to leave him in a home thinking that my sister is looking down on them and they are saying I don’t care if he kills me we are not taking him there ….but me and my other sister are at our wits end and we don’t know what to do . We have neglected our own family worring sick on a daily basis weather he’s smashed them or not my happiness depends on how this kid is on a day to day basis , we really truly don’t know where to turn . Can anyone please help us ! We are desperate !!
This article looks like it was written by a very ill informed person. First, check your grammar because a lot of this doesn’t make sense. Second, you’re talking about people here. There is no such thing as a ‘high-functioning autistic.’ I think what you meant is a person with high-functioning autism. It’s called ‘putting the person first.’ Instead of talking about them as if their autism defines them, try looking at them as people first. If you don’t know what you are talking about. Don’t talk about it.