Brain Imaging Could Detect Autism Risk in Infants

By Lynn Eades September 14, 2016

Users In the News: Brain Imaging Could Detect Autism Risk in Infants as Young as 6 Months

“…findings suggest that early on, there is something different going on in children who develop ASDs,” says Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer of Autism Speaks who is also a professor of psychiatry at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a co-author of the paper. “Very early on, before the emergence of behavioral symptoms, these neural networks that connect different brain regions are not developing normally.                Complete Time Story

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