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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2005;293:415.

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Individuals with autism use different parts of their brain to remember alphabet letters than those without the condition, new research shows. In a study published online in November in the journal Neuroimage (http://www.sciencedirect.com), scientists in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pa, used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare the brain activity of high-functioning adults with autism with a control group of individuals of similar ages and IQs.

Participants shown alphabet letters presented one at a time on a computer screen were asked to decide if a letter was the same as the previous letter or the one presented two letters previously.

Although both groups successfully completed the task, the autism group showed more brain activity in the right hemisphere, while the control group showed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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