Autism in the News:
The Scientist, February 17.
In a study of nearly 150 infants and toddlers, researchers compared MRI scans of children’s brains when they were six months, one year, and two years old. A computer then processed the six-month and one-year scans and managed to correctly predict which children would go on to receive an autism diagnosis. Read More ...
Findings from a new autism study suggest that changes in the brain in early infancy may predict diagnosis at age 2 in children who have higher odds of autism because an older sibling is autistic. The study, published in Nature, doesn’t tell us anything about causation, but it does incidentally confirm that the MMR vaccine has nothing to do with autism. Read More ...
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