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'Network' Analysis of Brain May Explain Features of Autism

[Source: Science Daily]
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A look at how the brain processes information finds a distinct pattern in children with autism spectrum disorders. Using EEGs to track the brain’s electrical cross-talk, researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital have found a structural difference in brain connections. Compared with neurotypical children, those with autism have multiple redundant connections between neighboring brain areas at the expense of long-distance links.
The study, using a “network analysis” like that used to study airlines or electrical grids, may help in understanding some classic behaviors in autism. It was published February 27 in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Medicine, accompanied by a commentary.
“We examined brain networks as a whole in terms of their capacity to transfer and process information,” says Jurriaan Peters, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital, who is co-first author of the paper with Maxime Taquet, a PhD student in Boston Children’s Computational Radiology Laboratory. “What we found may well change the way we look at the brains of autistic children.”
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