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Amygdala 'becomes abnormally small in most severe forms of autism' (extract)

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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