Research
Autistic individuals show altered white matter in long-range brain pathways
PsyPost · By Vladimir Hedrih ·
The Brief
- A meta-analysis of 66 studies found that autistic individuals tend to show differences in the microstructure of many brain white matter tracts.
- Compared with typically developing individuals, autistic individuals showed moderately lower fractional anisotropy, a measure often interpreted as an indicator of white matter integrity.
Why it matters
It pools many studies on white matter microstructure in autism, giving science readers a broad summary of diffusion MRI findings on long-range brain pathways.
Who’s affected
- neuroscientists studying autism
- researchers using diffusion MRI to study brain structure
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- #white matter
- #neuroscience
- #diffusion mri
- #meta-analysis
A meta-analysis of 66 studies found that autistic individuals tend to show differences in the microstructure of many of the brain’s white matter tracts. Compared with typically developing individuals, they showed moderately lower fractional anisotropy, a measure often interpreted…