Do individuals with autism show atypical duration of brain functional connections?
In a brain imaging database, increased duration of functional connections in autism were found in both distributed networks and individual brain regions, which were associated with metrics of disease severity. Functional connectivity in autism is variable across brain regions functional connectivity in autism is variable across brain regions, The group with autism had prolonged connectivity (up to 20 s) between areas of the brain, while the links disappeared much more quickly in people with typical development. It was also found that the symptoms of autism increased with the duration of connectivity between regions of the brain.
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