Autism and brain growth
Emma Chase VanCott
7elc at qlink.queensu.ca
Wed Jul 16 08:16:02 EST 2003
In sci.med.psychobiology John H. <john at faraway.com> wrote:
: Interesting because of recent research showing that schizophrenia is a
: neurodevelopmental disorder and schizophrenics showed delayed
: Autism linked to brain growth
: Autism may be linked to unusually rapid brain growth during the first year
: of life, say researchers.
: They found that children with a small head at birth,
Brain, or head growth.
Maybe they just have oversized ventricles, with a small brain, which still
makes their head "large".
Small head at birth is not surprising. Autism is a "developmental
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