"Brains of autistic children slower at processing sound

Brainwaves Scientist and slow processing of Autistic hearing.

This post based on the quotes of the article below found on the web,


"Brains of autistic children slower at processing sound
18:09 01 December 2008 by New Scientist staff and Reuters
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"Communication problems associated with autism may be explained by the discovery that the brains of autistic children are a fraction of a second slower to react to sounds than those of normal children."

Form Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Main Autism

A Discovery? - more like a fact and get this were even totally deaf -and blind at times -I wonder if that shows up on their brain wave machines?

If a true scientist knew of our autism MR/DD thought base the discovery that the EEG shows abnormal activity in our hearing processing would not be a shock it would simply show we are trying to process a picture based thought something no autism guru knows about these days. When we think in your day dreams our default thought process we need to first daydream as you know it. If you daydream you know it kind of takes you out of reality for a bit. Then we connect regroup and then come up with a normal thought and if were lucky enough we can get it into words before the conversation has moved on and the moment has passed. If not, we present as retarded and non communicative and If we can pull off the trick we can easily present as Einstein. There is really 'nothing' to being Einstein all humans could do it- it just is pure deep picture based thought totally thought out and presented in watered down words. Old Working Autism did this on a regular basis long before the designer Autism unknowingly invented the modern day Autism retardation machine.

This is pure discovery to the scientist that might need to jump and shout and rush to the printing press to "claim progress" and nonominate him or her self for a autism GURU award presented by the Autism Peer review boards.

The Article goes on, (quoted)
"According to Timothy Roberts of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, speaking on Monday at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, the finding "provides strong supporting evidence for the emerging theory that autism is a problem of connectivity in the brain"."

Well , there is no problem with our brains, it is just simply we think in a never before known thought process that to this day has never been in a book before. Connectivity of the brain is indeed an issue here but the biggest problem is the fact we are thinking in a more primitative thoughts process that is building up to the thought you use and are expecting. Normal thoughts are just WATERED DOWN autism thoughts,so when normal thinkers try to 'discover us' they have the key to the wrong door. When 'Normal Thinkers' and Autism Gurus refuse to look at successful Autism people like me and others of us that do very well they are just plain lost in their peer review job protection scheme. If they did set down hook us to their brain wave machines and we could tell them of our picture thoughts and when we are deaf and blind (optic vision is off) they would realize for once we are normal just our normal is not been charted yet.

The good news in all of this Autism figured out yields normal thoughts. I predict if they hooked high functioning autisitcs like me to their machines we could present with normal brain waves if we have figured out all of our building block thoughts AND we could also blow them away with a working 4 deminsion Autism thought. (the ulitmate Autism thought that makes us Einstein). Autism is the building blocks of the mind and all the scientist and Autism guru's are getting is a dose confuseon as they don't know the base (anymore) of the human mind. Those were long forgotton when Dr Rimland father of the movie Rainman and others took Autism Designer.

from the Article

"Since one syllable in a polysyllabic word might take less than one-quarter of a second to utter, Roberts says an increase of one-twentieth of a second in response time might hamper a child's comprehension. "There could be abnormal routing or a lack of connectivity in the brain," he says."

Hogwash,,,, we are connected but instead of having baseline normal thought to work with (what they are measuring) we are having to process our daydream based thought first. While we are thinking in pictures our OPTIC vision is OFF as is our hearing. Now we hear the very high pitches and the low noises and the "odd" noise while we are picutre thinking they keep us from walking into the path of a bus or off a cliff and are a signal to us to "return" to reality thoughts and even turn our optic vision back on. I wonder if the scientist that have us hooked to their brain waves even realize our OPTIC nerve is shorted out and we are not seeing optic vision but rather brain generated images we are thinking with? Many Autistic people never realize (espcially modern aged folks) that their OPTIC and Brain generated images are being interchanged. The LACK OF EYE CONTACT should tell you we our EYES are OFF! they might be open and apper to me working and we are indeed seeing an image via our brain generated thought but optically we are not seeing real world vision. Often with deep thought like this we are again deaf as well.
From the Article

"Children are usually diagnosed with autism only after the age of 2 or older. Roberts hopes that MEG could diagnose autism in children just a year old, so therapy can be started earlier and perhaps be monitored to evaluate the effect on the brain."

All of this Early Therapy business is what brought all this designer autism business to the limelight to start with. Now, that the Autism Monster has been born it needs fed and nurtured and supported and the autism baseline ignorance is its fuel. Human nature is such that autism is now too big of an issue to ever be solved- you can't un ring a bell. The ignornace is fuel the very "retard" autisitc person we know today and indeed even us high functioing people started out the same way. It is just with out he Autism Label and the designer empire we all overcame autism on our own and did a very good job of it. What we discovered is a never print before human thought process that is a few step below your thoughts when we are born and rises above normal thoughts when we figured out all of our picutre based (daydream based) thoughts. Autism is BOTH MR/DD and Einstein. Tell that to the professionals with the key to the wrong door.
From the Article

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complete article

Brains of autistic children slower at processing sound
18:09 01 December 2008 by New Scientist staff and Reuters
For similar stories, visit the The Human Brain Topic Guide
Communication problems associated with autism may be explained by the discovery that the brains of autistic children are a fraction of a second slower to react to sounds than those of normal children.

According to Timothy Roberts of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, speaking on Monday at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, the finding "provides strong supporting evidence for the emerging theory that autism is a problem of connectivity in the brain".

Roberts and his colleagues played a battery of sounds and syllables to 30 autistic children aged 6 to 15, while the team monitored the magnetic fields produced by electrical impulses from the children's brains.

The test employed a technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG), in which a helmet-like device is used to detect and locate brain activity. MEG has previously been used to show how the brain can filter out background chat at parties in order to focus on a single thread of conversation.

In comparison to normal children in the study, whose response time was around one-tenth of a second, the autistic children had a response time anywhere from 20% to 50% longer.

Abnormal routing
Since one syllable in a polysyllabic word might take less than one-quarter of a second to utter, Roberts says an increase of one-twentieth of a second in response time might hamper a child's comprehension. "There could be abnormal routing or a lack of connectivity in the brain," he says.

Autism is a spectrum of disorders that affects individuals to vastly different degrees, and Roberts thinks the delay could be used to assess the degree of autism in a person.

Microscopic examination of the brain tissue of people with autism has shown there may be fewer connections between their brain cells, says Roberts.

Though more frequently used than MEG, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans are not detailed enough to detect such small differences in brain connections, and have not found structural differences between autistic and normal brains.

Children are usually diagnosed with autism only after the age of 2 or older. Roberts hopes that MEG could diagnose autism in children just a year old, so therapy can be started earlier and perhaps be monitored to evaluate the effect on the brain.

MEG can cost roughly $400 an hour to perform, but could become less expensive if the equipment became more widely available. The technique is used currently to help locate brain tumours and to diagnose epilepsy.

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