Autistic brains are like the wild west
A study of autistic and non-autistic brains found that no two autistic neurologies were alike enough to fit any category or grouping. All the non-autistic brains in the control group were wired reliably the same.
The study leaders said that the neural connectivity in the MRIs of autistic brains were so “idiosyncratic” they could not group any of them together. They called the control group of non-autistic brains “conformist,” by contrast.
The findings were published in Nature Neuroscience by Avital Hahamy and Prof. Rafi Malach of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department (Rehovot, Israel), and Prof. Marlene Behrmann of Carnegie Mellon University.
Source: “Autistic brains go their own way” (January 21, 2015), article from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) posted on January 21, 2015 in EurekAlert!, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Spectrum Confessions is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.