Causes of Difficult People with Autism Communicate

People with autism do not look very concerned with the surrounding environment. Now researchers find the cause of why people with autism have to fight hard in their social environment.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge who conducted the study with advanced brain scans found that the brains of people with autism who does not recognize the consciousness of himself. As a result, let alone to communicate, to recognize his personal awareness of the course, the patient had difficulty.

Sophisticated brain scans obtained researcher suggests people with autism look less active when engaged in thinking about self-awareness. The results of this study have been published in the journal Brain.

This study has demonstrated the existence of problems in autistic patients, namely in terms of difficulty thinking of something and make sense of themselves and others.

The researchers used functional magnetic resonance scans to measure brain activity of 66 male volunteers are about 50 percent have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.

The volunteers were asked to pass judgment on his own thoughts, opinions, preferences, physical characteristics and are required to pass judgment on others.

By doing brain scans of volunteers in responding to the question, the researchers could see the difference in brain activity between people with autism who did not.

Researchers are very interested in the part of the brain called the pre-frontal ventrodial cortex (vmPFC) is known to be active when a person thinks about himself.

"This research shows that autistic brains have to work hard to process information about themselves, while for exploring social interaction with others takes more effort again," said Michael Lombardo of the University of Cambridge, as quoted by the BBC on Monday (14 / 12/2009).

"We know many people with autism are very difficult to interact with others and build friendships, this is because they have difficulty in recognizing and understanding the thoughts and feelings of others," said Dr Gina Gomez de la Cuesta from the National Autistic Society.