Notecard #5

Wallis, Claudia. “Inside the Autistic Mind”. SIRS Researcher. May 15, 2006. Time Vol. 167, No. 20. SIRS Knowledge Source. September 19, 2008. John Carroll School. <http://sks.sirs.com/>.

• More than $100 million have been donated in the past decade for research on autism.
• Scientists studying for causes of autism have found spots on chromosomes 2, 5, 7, 11, and 17 that are a factor, but they don’t know how.
• High levels of anxiety are found in up to 80% of people with autism.
• There have been cases where autism receded as the person got older, and almost completely vanished.

Direct Quote:

• “The frontal lobes, home to higher reasoning, are greatly enlarged, due mainly to excess white matter, the brain's connector cables; the cerebellum, like the frontal lobes, is overloaded with white matter; the hippocampus is about 10% larger than normal; the amygdala is also enlarged; and the corpus callosum is undersize.”