If you are like most people, you make commitments to others all the time. Question is - how often do you keep your promise? It is impossible to follow through on every single one you make in life, but how many you break and how you handle it when you do is key to understanding yourself.
Autism has often been described as a âneurological disorder.â This description implies that it is centrally and primarily related to issues in the nervous system, particularly the brain.
A newly published brain-tissue study suggests that children affected by autism have a surplus of synapses, or connections between brain cells. The excess is due to a slowdown in the normal pruning process that occurs during brain development, the researchers say. The study team also found that the medication rapamycin both restores normal synaptic pruning and reduces autism-like behaviors in a mouse model of autism.