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From Volume 4 Number 6
WASHINGTON DC, USA: The brain's fear hub probably becomes abnormally
small in the most severely socially impaired males with autism spectrum
disorders, researchers funded by the the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (NICHD - part of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) - have discovered.
Teenagers and young men who were
slowest at distinguishing emotional from neutral expressions and gazed
at eyes least – indicators of social impairment – had a smaller than
normal amygdala, an almond-shaped danger-detector deep in the brain.
The researchers also linked such amygdala shrinkage to impaired
non-verbal social behaviour in early childhood …
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