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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Let’s turn to some new findings on autism, especially research showing brain changes happening in the womb. Scientists compared the brain tissue of children who had autism and died with those who didn’t have autism. They found that kids with autism had disorganization in regions of their brain essential for social functioning, emotions and communication, a conclusion drawn from discovering disruptions in these sections of the brain. Those gaps are shown here in purple.
The news came as the government revised upward its estimate of the prevalence of the disorder to one out of every 68 children in the U.S. That’s more than the previous autism estimate of one out of every 88 kids.
Eric Courchesne is an author of today’s research about the brain. He’s the director of the Autism Center of Excellence at the University of California, San Diego.
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