Communication in Brain May Be Remarkably Constant in Autism
Patterns of brain activity in people with autism are unusually consistent over seconds—and even years, two new studies suggest.
One study shows that patterns of connectivity remain stable in autistic adolescents, whereas they tend to change and specialize in controls. The other study found that connections remain fixed longer in people with autism than in controls. Both focused on so-called “functional connectivity,” the extent to which the activity of pairs of brain areas Together, the studies may help untangle seemingly contradictory findings on connectivity in autism: reports of both underconnectivity and overconnectivity in the brain.is synchronized.
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