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The autism is a neurological disorder complex that generally hard the whole life. It is a part of a group of disorders known as disorders of the autistic spectrum (ASD for his initials in English). Nowadays there is diagnosed by autism 1 of every 88 individuals and to 1 of every 54 children males, making it more

common than the cases of cancer, diabetes and BEEN pediatric cocktails. He appears in any racial, ethnic and social group, and is four times more frequent in the children than in the girls. The autism damages the capacity of a person to communicate and to be related to others. 

What is the AUTISM?

At least one of every 150 children suffers autism. We tell you eight recent discoveries on this disorder which principal signs and symptoms concern the communication, the social interactions and the repetitive conducts

8 Things that you do not know on AUTISM

2. Big head The children with autism have

more levels of hormones involved in the growth (factors of growth insulínicos types 1 and 2) that those who do not suffer the disease.

It would explain why the circumference of the head in the autistic ones is bigger, as he was concluding a recent study of Cincinnati's University (the) (USA) published in Clinical Endocrinology.

3. The reputation does not matter.

In agreement with an investigation of the Technological Institute of California (Caltech), it is not important for the autistic ones what the others think about them. For to demonstrate it, the scientists compared his behavior at the moment of doing economic donations to UNICEF in two conditions: being alone and when they were observed by another person. The

healthy subjects were donating more in presence of an observer, because they bore in mind how it would reverberate in his social reputation. The quantity donated by the autistic ones, nevertheless, was identical in both situations. The conclusions were published in the magazine PNAS.

4. They process better The autistic ones have major

aptitude to process information that the common one of the mortal ones, which might explain the seemingly major percentage that the average of autistic persons who are employed at the sector of the technology of the information, investigators of United Kingdom affirm. Besides this major aptitude to process information, the autistic ones they are more capable of detecting information that is considered to be essential, according to the study, which was appearing in the publication Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

5. Autistic face

The face of the children with autism has typical features, in agreement with a published study it does little in the Molecular magazine Autism. Concretely, they have the broadest eyes and the mouth, the high zone of the biggest face of the habitual thing and the zone happens of the face (nose and cheeks) slightly smaller than the average.

6. Premature babies

The premature babies and those that they are born with low weight have a predisposition five times major when autism develops that those that they are born with a normal weight, according to a study published in the magazine Pediatrics and based on information obtained for 21 years.

7. Advantages in the prehistory Some of the genes that

they contribute to the autism might have be selected in the past because they were providing major skills in spatial intelligence, concentration and memory, qualities that they were favoring to whom they were suffering autism at the moment of hunting and to gather.

8. Neurons mirror. The persons who suffer

autism tend to have problems as for the social skills and it turns out to them almost impossible to show empathy on having communicated with another person. In agreement with an investigation announced in Biological Psychiatry, there owes to failures in the system of the neurons mirror (the managers of understanding and anticipating the desires and the actions of the others), that do not shield themselves but develop with extreme slowness.

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Edición Marcos R TorresWilliannys N Lozada