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Your pencil marks on the door frame mark your kids' ascending height; your photo albums carry the visual record of their ascending ages. Scientists have figured out a new way to track growing up: studying the normal evolution of connections between parts of the brain as a person ages toward adulthood. If advanced far enough, such a method could even help to catch developmental disability.
Could Connection-Mapping Brain Scans Help Diagnose Autism?
Seeded on Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:16 PM EDT
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I'm not sure what to think about this. I can't tell whether there would be more good or bad that would result from this.
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#1 - Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:18 PM EDTIt's probably a mixed bag. At the bottom of the article is a link to art from autistic people. "How we see the world" Those pictures say it all.
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