of recent origin information identi...

of recent origin information identifying neurobiological early-warning signs of autism gives potential for earlier diagnosis and intervention and improved clinical issues for autistic children, according to a July 15 2003 of the present days release from the University of California, San Diego. Researchers establish a link between autism and small head circumference at birth that is followed by way of a sudden, excessive increase in head circumference and brain produce during the first year of life.

Accelerated head and brain germination occurs long before the first clinical signs of autism. The disorder usually is not lay opened until a child is between ages sum of two units and four and displays behavioral symptoms so as delayed speech, unusual social and emotional reactions, and poor attention to the environment. Rapid, abnormal brain vegetation in infants does not allow for accumulation of experiences and emotions that shape normal behavior.

Autism happens in one out of 160 children and is single in kind of the more common, serious early childhood neurological disorders. As a consequence of this study, dramatic brain overgrowth is look forward toed to become a focus of autism genetics research, according to the release.

UCSD Researchers Find Brain Overgrowth During First Year of Life in Autism (new release, San Diego: University of California, San Diego, July 15 2003) http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/health/07_15_ Courchesne.htm (accessed 28 July 2003)

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