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Autism” A mysterious disease
Worldwide, many research teams, together with parents of children with autism, work on autism.
Many factors are cited to explain autism, but none has yet demonstrated its role in the onset of the disease: genetic, neuro-anatomical, functional brain abnormalities, environmental factors, biological, immunological .. .
Finding a cause to this disease is all the more difficult it is manifested in many forms, the dosage of organic substances in the body are made in several laboratories around the world by different methods with results not comparable.
Researchers are nevertheless agree on the existence of the increase of stress hormone in the blood of people with autism and anxiety is a symptom of autism. It appears that stress would promote the severity of autistic disorders.
Teams of researchers, using functional MRI, have demonstrated the failure of certain functional areas of the brain of autistic people prevents them from recognizing the human voices or faces. This could explain their inability to adapt with any exterior and palpable anxiety that emanates from these people.