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Brain enlargement in autism due to brain changes occurring before age 2
May 2, 2011 by NewsBot
A new study finds that children with autism who had enlarged brains at age 2 continued to have enlarged brains at ages 4 and 5. However, this increased brain growth did not continue beyond age 2, and the changes detected at age 2 were due to overgrowth prior to that time point.
