Can Autism Be Stopped at Six Months?
New research is showing that the signs of autism appear in infants brains as young as six months of age leading to the question can autism be stopped or at least the symptoms improved with extremely early intervention? Perhaps, the impact of the disorder can lessened. The research took scans of infant brains and found that there are certain connections that were not forming as swiftly in the babies who later developed autism as they were in infants who did not. The “normal” brains showed rapid organization. The study was just published Friday in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Previous … Continue reading