Three Students of An-Najah Publish Research in Clinical Anatomy
Students Fareed Jumah and Mohammad Jaber from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at An-Najah and their colleague Malik Ghannam, Resident Physician at An-Najah National University Hospital, published a research paper titled: “Neuroantomical Variation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comprehensive Review” by Clinical Anatomy, a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers anatomy in all its aspects; gross, histologic, developmental and neurologic as applied to medical practice.
The research was conducted in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School in the U.K and the Seattle Science Foundation in the U.S.A.
The idea of the research came from a friend
Nimer Adeeb, An-Najah graduate who works at the Neurosurgery Department at Harvard is a close friend to the three researchers and is the one who came up with the idea. Adeeb encouraged his colleagues to conduct research on this particular subject as it is not a well understood area in neurology.
About the Research
The study sheds light on the anatomical abnormalities in autistic brains. The researchers spent an entire year reviewing all the available literature about the neuroanatomical findings in ASD available via "PubMed" and "Google Scholar."
They also studied thoroughly each part of the autistic brain collecting data from various citations and literature.
Importance
The research importance resides in being a reference on autistic studies and is considered a portal for other researches on this particular subject.
The Initiative
What was distinct about the research is that its idea was an initiative by the students and not a requirement from the university.
An International Achievement
The research was evaluated by Dr. Shane Tubbs, an anatomist working as a Chief Scientific Officer for the Seattle Science Foundation in addition to a scientific committee from Clinical Anatomy Journal.
