Study Finds That Brains With Autism Fail to Trim Synapses as They Develop

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Cilck Here to Read:  Study Finds That Brains With Autism Fail to Trim Synapses as They Develop by Pam Belluck in The New York Times on August 21, 2014.

David Sulzer, a neurobiologist at Columbia, led a study that may help explain symptoms of autism like oversensitivity to noise, as well as why many people with autism also have epilepsy.
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Maturing brain flips function of amygdala in regulating stress hormones

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Click Here to Read: Maturing brain flips function of amygdala in regulating stress hormones on the Medical Express Website on August 20, 2014,

The amygdala is a region of the brain known to be important for responses to threats and learning about threats. Its function regulating stress hormones undergoes significant changes as the brain matures, Yerkes research suggests. Credit: NIMH