Autism Brains Alike; Very Different From Normal Brains

http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20110525/autism-brains-alike-very-different-from-normal-brains

I am just going to mention this at the outpost and not mention it again...this article uses very flawed person first language.

Anyways, besides that, it sounds like a very interesting study.  I am very interested in the neurological aspects of autism and if you are, then keep reading.  This gives a very short description of the study but from the sounds of it, it sounds like the studied two different brains.  One of the types of brains was that of a person with autism and the other type was a person who did not have autism.

They looked at the RNA (which they describe as the blueprint of the DNA read aloud...basically the RNA is what the DNA is asking for) of a bunch of different brains from both types.  They found that the brain of a person with autism has a severely lowered neuron speed.  What is meant by this is that our brains are neurons, which are electrically charged things that shoot information to each other.  In this way, the information of a memory will be in a certain part of your brain and it will shoot over to another part of your brain which deals with emotions and you will remember the feelings that you had when that memory had occurred.  The neurons are really fast, that is how we think.

Apparently, according to this short story on the study, the brain of a person with autism has a lower neuronic speed (I just made up that phrase, there is probably an actual name for it, but I don't know what).  This means that it takes longer for their brains to remember what they were feeling when that memory happened...and it could be that the neurons don't get there and that could be why many people with autism seem unemotional.

I am looking forward to keeping on looking for different neurological studies and trying to just let you know what could be their impact on education.  Enjoy!