Post by aterry on May 26, 2011 9:15:48 GMT -5
Here's a link to a UCLA study Published May 25 in the advance online edition of Nature:
scienceblog.com/45496/autism-changes-molecular-structure-of-the-brain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28Science+Blog%29
This research outcome seems very interesting to me. I don't quite understand it but this part I get and it makes sense to me:
When the scientists compared the frontal and temporal lobes in the healthy brains, they saw that more than 500 genes were expressed at different levels in the two regions.
In the autistic brains, these differences were virtually non-existent.
“In a healthy brain, hundreds of genes behave differently from region to region, and the frontal and temporal lobes are easy to tell apart,” Geschwind said. “We didn’t see this in the autistic brain. Instead, the frontal lobe closely resembles the temporal lobe. Most of the features that normally distinguish the two regions had disappeared.”
scienceblog.com/45496/autism-changes-molecular-structure-of-the-brain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28Science+Blog%29
This research outcome seems very interesting to me. I don't quite understand it but this part I get and it makes sense to me:
When the scientists compared the frontal and temporal lobes in the healthy brains, they saw that more than 500 genes were expressed at different levels in the two regions.
In the autistic brains, these differences were virtually non-existent.
“In a healthy brain, hundreds of genes behave differently from region to region, and the frontal and temporal lobes are easy to tell apart,” Geschwind said. “We didn’t see this in the autistic brain. Instead, the frontal lobe closely resembles the temporal lobe. Most of the features that normally distinguish the two regions had disappeared.”