International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume IV, Issue VIIS, July 2017 | ISSN 2321–2705 A Brief Instigation to : Review Article

Ashima Sindhu Mohanty1, Dr. Krishna Chandra Patra2, Akshya Kumar Sahoo3 1Research scholar, SUIIT, Sambalpur University, Odisha, India 2HOD, Dept. of Electronics, SUIIT, Sambalpur University, Odisha, India 3Assistant professor in Dept. of EEE, GIET, Gunupur, Odisha, India

Abstract: - The composite brain comprises of billions of components with distinguishable shape, size and wiring patterns. It supervises all the essential functions of the body by receiving the information through five senses: sight, hear, smell, taste and touch and the messages are assembled in a way that has meaning for us. Humans are affected from a number of neurodevelopmental disorders which results in poor ability to function in daily life. Disorders (ASD) are a composite set of mental disorders due to deterioration in the growth and development of brain defined by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication and repeated unusual behaviours. ASD incorporates Autism, and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise . specified (PDD-NOS). This review article assembles information on different interventions adopted against autism. Figure 2. Keywords: Autism, Asperger syndrome, PDD-NOS, ABA, DSP, Source: https://pmgbiology.com/2015/02/18/nerve-cells-and-synapses-a- EIBI, Medication. understanding-for-igcse-biology/ There is a gap which is particularly known as synapse I. INTRODUCTION between the axon and the dendrite of the neighbouring neuron and the message sent by the signal must cross this synapse in utism is a mental disorder due to deteroriation in the [3] A growth and development of brain characterised by order for the message to be carried on to the next neuron. impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal The brain relies on complex wiring to process and transmit communication and repeated unusual behaviour. In the first 2- information. According to scientists, people with autism have 3 years of a child’s life span, the symptoms of autism are inexact wiring giving rise to miscommunication between brain [1] spotted. Some cases are also detected where autistic cells. The nerve cells in the brain are responsible for the children occasionally reach their grown benchmark and then transmission of information in the form of event potential to [2] sink. . The processing of data in the brain is strictly affected regulate normal body functions. The fact disclosed by the by changing the connection of the nerves and synapses. imaging investigation that the autistic children have more than enough nerve cells which are not working well to accelerate II. TYPES AND EFFECTS OF AUTISM communication between various brain parts. Due to massive Neurons are the nerve cells which transmit information wiring, the brain size is affected and it suffers a rapid growth through electrical and chemical signals via synapses. between 6 to 14 months leading to abnormal brain development.[3] It is studied that just after the birth, the brains of acoustic children grow faster than usual followed by relatively slower growth in childhood. The early overgrowth is associated with an excess of neurons causing over connectivity in key brain regions, disturbed neuronal migration during early gestation and abnormal formation of synapses and dendritic spines. During autism it has been detected that the brain goes through irregularities in corpus callosm which facilitates communication between the 2 hemispheres of brain, amygdela which impinges emotion and social behaviour and cerebellum which is involved with motor activity, balance Figure 1: structure of neuron. and co-ordination. The neurotransmitters which are the Source: https://owlcation.com/stem/Structure-of-a-Neuron chemicals to help the nerve cells to communicate with each

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other are also imbalanced. 3 of the neurotransmitters Disclosure to air pollution and particulates during pregnancy serotonin, glutamate and dopamine are highly affected.[4-8] increases the risk of autism. Some of the environmental factors like certain foods, alcohol, smoking, drugs and vaccines also adds the same.[15,16] There are also verified evidences which represents synaptic dysfunctioning to be one of the reasons for autism.[17] All criterias which cause birth defects related to the risk of autism act during the first 8 weeks from conception resulting in the evidence that autism arises very early in the development.[18] It is marked that, the functional brain system is affected by a set of developmental and growth factors resulting in autism.

The immune system is also responsible for autism. Connection between the immune system and nervous system Figure 3: The brain of a child with autism has an abnormal corpus callosum, amygdala and cerebellum. initiates during the early embryonic stage of life. A successful brain development depends upon a balanced immune ASD is a wide variety of disorders of varying severity response. It is marked that when the immune system during collectively. Some common ASDs are: First is autism which pregnancy is disturbed by environmental factors like toxicants is discussed earlier, second is Asperger syndrome which is and infections, it can contribute to autism resulting in nearest to autism in sign but has the symptoms milder than disruption of brain development.[19-21] autism. In asperger syndrome, social challenges and unusual behavior are observed with a minute chance of language IV. PREVENTION OF AUTISM query.[9] And third is pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS). The individuals with this While treating autistic children, the main goal is to degrade disorder shows some of the symptoms of autism and asperger the associated deficits and family distress along with syndrome.[10] Sometimes study analysis by medical increasing the quality of life and functional independence. The professionals state that, depending on IQ threshold and the main sources of treating the affected individual are family and limit of support required by the individual, the autistic educational system. Some of the approaches in early life like syndrome is classified into low functioning autism (LFA), sustained special education programs and behaviour therapy [22] medium functioning autism (MFA) and high functioning can help the affected children in promoting better job skills. autism (HFA).[11] It can also decrease the symptom severity and unusual behaviour. Some of the available approaches against autism III. includes Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), structured learning, speech & language therapy and social skill Autism is caused by a combination of genetic and therapy.[22] During some research, it was stated that an early environmental factors.[12] In some cases, during pregnancy [13] intervention model based on ABA i.e. Early Intensive specifically, Rubella virus hatches autism. It is assessed Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) applied for 20-40 hours a that heritability is 0.7 for autism for twins with another week for multiple years forms an effective treatment for exploring fact that siblings of those with autism are about 25 children suffering from ASD.[23] Like ABA, another times more likely to be autistic in comparision to the general approached model is the Developmental Social Pragmatic population. Spontaneous structural variation such as deletion, (DSP) model. There is a strategy which constitutess a parent duplication or inversionn in the genetic material during training model where the parents are trained about the process meiosis process results in autism in the individual belonging [14] to implement various ABA and DSP techniques. Various DSP to unaffected family members.. programs are developed now a days to deliver intervention system through at-home parent implementation. Similarly the strategy which combines an ABA with DSP together is found to be a well established and sophisticated treatment in improving the communication skill in young children.[24] When the strategic behavioural treatment fails, then many medications are used to treat ASD symptoms.[25] From a survey analysis, it is stated that more than half of the US children suffering from ASD are prescribed with psychoactive drugs like antidepressants, stimulants and .[26] Antipsychotics like and , originally Figure 4: Deletion (1), duplication (2) and inversion (3) are all chromosome designed to treat schizophrenia, are the most effective means abnormalities that have been implicated in autism. Source: for healing irritability, sleeplessness and repeated behaviour https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_Chromosome_Mutations.pn [27] g associated with autism. By reducing the amount of

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