New study is first to quantify key difference in amygdala (extract)

From Volume 4 Number 4

SACRAMENTO, California, USA: Researchers at the University of California, Davis, M.I.N.D. Institute have discovered that the brains of males with autism have fewer neurons (nerve cells) in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory.
    The study, published in the July 19, 2006 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, is the first neuroanatomical study to quantify a key difference in the autistic amygdala ...

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