Have you ever wondered what the differences are between the autistic brain and the normal brain? Or even what causes autism in the first place? There are multiple differences between the autistic brain and the normal brain that can highly affect the way a person acts. One of the main problems for a person with autism, is not having the capacity to control their emotions as easy as other people without Autism can. Moreover, there is no particular cause for autism. Scientist have discovered there are many different things that can affect a person causing them to become autistic, that you will learn about later on in this paper. “When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction …show more content…
Some of this includes irregularities with the Corpus Callosum (band of axons connecting and carrying massages between the two hemispheres), the Cerebellum (which coordinates voluntary muscle movement, balance, perception, and cognition), the Amygdala (influences aggression and fear), and other important parts of the brain. Scientist believe these abnormalities occur during parental development because and autistic child is born with a normal brain or a slightly smaller-than-normal one. This all usually happens between the ages of 14 months and 6 years and at the age of four their brain is larger than how it is supposed to be. In addition, something that has been noticed is that there are disparities in neurotransmitters, in particularly the ones that are more greatly affected are serotonin and glutamate. Serotonin affects emotion and behavior of the brain and person, while glutamate is involved with neuron activity. The glutamate levels in the brain of an autistic person are much higher than the normal brain. When these two parts of the brain are affected, they have higher levels than what they are supposed to. When they are put together, because they are so different they cause the autistic