An MRI study of the corpus callosum in autism

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Huh, very interesting. Now read this article:

http://www.playpiano.com/Articles/music ... rter-3.htm

Simply put, autistic people tend to have smaller than normal corpus callosums (i.e. "white matter" of the brain). Musicians, however, tend to have larger than normal corpus callosums.

Is it possible, then, that learning music at an early age could dampen the severity of autistic traits in the autistic person?

fiddlerpianist - there are people who say music has helped their autistic kids, although music helps most people learn so I don't know if it's valid.

Kim Peek has practically know corpus callosum, if I remember correctly.

I guess the time is not far when admission to university will be based on an MRI study of your brain.

This is what I brought up the other day in one of these threads (if I could remember which one..) about the problem of left-handed autistics.. Lefties are supposed to have a larger corpus callosum than right-handed people, and I know there are at least another couple of lefties around here.. Have there been any MRI studies on left-handed autistics? LOL

As far as I know, that trait will be recorded in the study.

myIQ is 117 probs 120/125 on a goo day is this bad

The Soviets would poke and prod and test little kids to find the things that they were best suited for according to the data, and then be groomed from childhood to go into those occupations. The system was used to determine which sport Olympic athletes would train in. It was efficient, but it of course totally ignored the wishes of the kid, who of course was brainwashed from birth to believe that he was doing what he should be doing. The danger is in fusing such a system with eugenics, and saying that only people with Profile X are allowed to breed with people of the same profile. The Soviets had a deep hatred for eugenics, which had been used by the Nazis as justification for exterminating most of Eastern Europe. America loves eugenics. If something like that ever got going, we'd either end up with superhumans or genetically brittle people. Maybe both. Some people have argued that autism is evolution trying to make a more specialized human, not necessarily a superior one but one more suited to fast changing technologies. Autistics DO have an inclination towards technology. Then there's the idea that kids who are suited for certain occupations are a threat to the regime or useless and must be exterminated.

WOW, that was a very interesting read, thanks.

I am left-handed...and sort of a musician...if singing/ukulele counts...I was never formally musically trained...but I was exposed to a lot of music while growing up..

My dad and his older brother are both right-handed and strong musicians who can play a wide variety of instruments....also..the AS that runs on their side of the family didn't effect them as strongly as maybe it coulda...they both pass for NT despite their engineer AS-ish dad (over 40 when they were born)and His lower-functioning younger brother.