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What is the link between the digestive system and the brain in people with ASD?

April 26, 2017ASD brain digestive link people system

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What is the link between the digestive system and the brain in people with ASD?

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Some of these bacterially produced compounds (mentioned above), known as short-chain fatty acids, when injected in small amounts into the brains of experimental rodents, produce bouts of hyperactivity and repetitive behavior resembling those seen in ASDs.