Abstract
The brain imaging technology has been advancing at the astonishing rate. With these imaging technologies, region of dysfunction in various psychiatric disorders are the subject of current research, and the Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of them. The morphological brain study and the functional brain study of ASD have been discussed.
The morphology of Cerebellum and Cerebral hemisphere of ASD has been studied extensively over the last decade. We discussed the regional volumetric anomaly, the developmental brain hyperplasia, and the decreased regional white matter connectivity.
We also discussed the functional brain studies using the tasks such as “theory of mind” “face expression recognized task” “emotion processing task”. We then discussed the possible explanation of how these brain functional impairments are related to the certain autistic symptoms.
