Our Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) students had their presentations last week at Union South! Susan Lei, Lauren Salmi, Madelyn Scheid, and Roselyn Pacheco presented our Brainy Movement Study for Kids to the program …
Brainstem
Brain’s center of automatic body functions has autism links
The brainstem’s white matter — the nerve fibers that connect brain regions — may be altered in autistic people. Among boys and men with autism, those with more poorly organized white matter in the brainstem …
Traits of autism, attention deficit linked to small brainstem
The severity of autism tracks closely with that of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and the brainstem may underlie this connection: Children with either condition who have a small brainstem tend to have severe traits.
Brain imaging reveals brain stem alterations in children with autism
Children with autism show different patterns of connectivity than controls do in brain stem regions associated with balance. The connections in the brain stem are associated with balance and motor skills, both of which are …