My ASD fMRI Results ! !! !!

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This was actually less than seven years ago... Maybe five? I was diagnosed very late (I'd be taller if I had been diagnosed earlier, but the doctors brushed the possibility off until my mother insisted I be tested).

I'm tempted to go rescue the files before they're destroyed, out of personal curiosity. I could hang up a picture of my brain on the wall, that would be fun.

I had a MRI scan when I was 12 old when they thought that I have brain cancer while I had Abdominal migraine. They are filed somewhere in my parent's office. Would they be useful?

So sedaka , what the study concludes ?....how the autistic brain is supposed to look like and what are the physical differences between a typical brain and an autie brain? If only autism researches are advanced here...

that would likely be a static MRI. fMRI stands for functional. That means it measures the electrical activity in the brain in near real time, and outputs these as pretty colours.

Classic MRI is good for finding organic disease, tumours, etc. Currently there is very little structural evidence for ASD, and that work often requires an autopsy.

yea, it was static ...I don't think fMRI were even yet invented then.

before my MRI scan , I had EEG and they found great abnormality in my EEG result and that's why doctors requested a MRI scan.

Definitely go for it. Very cool!

Oh, I think I must have had a classic MRI.

I do recall reading somewhere that autistic people's brains are supposed to look different but perhaps I misread it and it meant in terms of brain activity, not structure.

I think gay men are supposed to have a different brain structure than straight men, I thought perhaps it was like that.


I really think I should. I'll probably forget about it before I get around to actually doing anything though, like so many other things.