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Autistic toddlers' brains out of sync
自閉癥幼兒大腦不同步

Researchers studying autistic toddlers have discovered their brain activity appears to be out of sync at a very early stage.

Researchers studying autistic toddlers have discovered their brain activity appears to be out of sync at a very early stage, Reuters reports. The finding sheds light on the biology of the condition and might help in earlier diagnosis.

據路透社報道，研究自閉癥嬰幼兒的人員發現，這些兒童的的大腦活動在年紀非常小的時候就顯現出不同步的現象。該發現為這種病癥的生理特征提供解釋，并有助于對該癥進行更早期的診斷。?

In research published in the journal Neuron, scientists in Israel used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at the brains of sleeping toddlers and found that certain types of neural activity are disrupted in autistic children, but not in typical children or in others with delayed language development.

這項研究發表于《神經元》雜志上，以色列的科學家利用功能性磁共振成像技術研究熟睡中的嬰幼兒，發現自閉癥兒童的某些神經活動有所紊亂，而典型兒童和其他語言發展滯后的兒童身上沒有這種現象。

"What we looked at is how the activity is synchronized," said Ilan Dinstein of Weizmann Institute of Science, who led the study. "And we found that the synchronization was different – specifically in toddlers with autism and across the hemispheres (of the brain) in areas related to language and communication."

(China.org.cn June 24, 2011)

以色列魏茨曼科學研究所的伊蘭?丁斯坦領導該研究，表示：“我們研究是大腦活動如何同步。我們發現同步是不同的，特別是在患有自閉癥的嬰幼兒身上，以及大腦半球中與語言溝通相關的區域之間。”