Posts Tagged
‘autismspecific’

February 24, 2022

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by: admin

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Tags: amygdala, anxiety, autismspecific, Development, diverges, Spectrum

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Categories: autism

Fork in the road: The amygdalae of autistic children with an autism-specific form of anxiety and those with more traditional anxiety follow divergent developmental paths. Derek Andrews The amygdala — which is involved in fear and emotion processing and comprises a small region in each brain hemisphere — develops differently in autistic children with anxiety […]

Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to this week’s community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. If you would like to continue receiving this newsletter after today, please click here to receive an email from Mailchimp and update your settings. We start this week with a tweet […]