Monkeys subjected to asphyxia at birth displayed
transient delay in development of motor control.
Normal
monkey
Monkey with
developmental delay
They did eventually appear to “catch up.”
But examination of the brain many months or years later revealed
that brain growth had not progressed normally [90].
Neurons were sparser in: The oculomotor nuclei, reticular
formation, mammillary bodies, hippocampus, amygdala,
corpus callosum, cerebellum (Purkinje cells) and cerebral
cortex (parietal and frontal) than in normal monkeys.
These sites correspond to where changes are found
in the brains of people with life-long autism [91-92].
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