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Asperger’s in Adults: You think you know the faces of Asperger’s Autism
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and then as we look toward the back part of the brain that very all brain
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primitive brain is the cerebellum
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and it is mainly in this period of the cerebellum
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that we see
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underdevelopment
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now that’s rather interesting because studies now have shown
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that family members of people who have a dat
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eighty eight he was in my family
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that when we look at the parents and that the siblings of people with eighty
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h t
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wees all socio ndr development in most of these regions
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but not in all of them
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which means that this underdevelopment is part of the family scene a tight
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c_d_h_ dat dat is a spectrum disorder
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and biological relatives of affected patients do shows some
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symptoms of a d_h_ d but not the full disorder this is very much like autistic
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spectrum disorders in that sense
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where we see elements
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of artistic
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symptoms but not full disorder or diagnose the bull disorder in those
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individuals
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what has been fascinating has been the work of the u_c_l_a_ research team
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jim mccaw few mccracken and others
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that have shown that when we look at the relatives of people with a d_h_ t
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the frontal lobe interior singular
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the basal ganglia
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are also smaller even though the people don’t have the disorder
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the difference is the cerebellum
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the affected patients
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have the underdevelopment in the cerebellum
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the non affected family members do not
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suggesting that the cerebellum it actually be the most crucial
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structure in explaining
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why the disorder rises to full disorder
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penetrating the phenotype and becoming
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diagnosis or mediation
