Excessive neurons?

Post Reply New Topic

Well, I've always thought I was missing something - like everyone got told something that I missed out on, then, I found this: http://www.psychforums.com/asperger-syn ... 76990.html

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

(Thread moved from wp.net discussion to autism discussion)

It kinda makes sense to me. I have always felt like my brain just would never shut the frak up.
And it's not like there is anything really that productive going on in my head, just lots of excess thought.
Most of my past chemical abuses have been simply attempts to quiet my mind. That didn't really work out so well in the long run.

Now, I am practicing meditation. I think it's a better approach, but it's going to take a lot more practice.

What isn't mentioned in the summary is from what subset the sample of just 7 brains was taken. This sort of research is usually drawn from postmortem dissection of LFA brains.

Not so long ago, a lot of excitement was created by discoveries concerning the autistic brain's neural minicolumns being more tightly packed. This sounds not only plausible, but explanatory, right?

Until you read it, and find out, that on the very Highest end, they are only 10% closer than the general population's minicolumn distribution.

The "normal" as well as, most of our autistic brains, grow fast in infancy, and then early on, "prune" away a lot of the infant connections.

It's hypothetically possible that at this time an original language system is removed (pruned), and the complex, permanent language system begins to take over, (or doesn't).

It's also possible, that the structure of sensory differences and memory differences, are habituated in the brain at this time.

In 2007 Sarah White and Uta Frith had a conference poster entitled "Big Heads, Small Details".
It was meant to be funny.