Researchers at the University of North Carolina used brain scans to predict with 80% accuracy whether certain children would develop autism, meaning such scans could enable early treatment of the ...

A new kind of brain scan may be able to predict when a baby as young as 6 months old will develop autism, researchers said Wednesday. The approach is not likely to be useful for all kids ...

Ultimately, this algorithm was pretty good at predicting from the six- and twelve-month brain scans of the same group of children if the child would be diagnosed with autism. The key differences ...

The brain imaging scans, taken at 6 months ... during the first year in babies who would later meet the criteria for autism, such as not making eye contact, delaying speech or other displaying ...

Adult autism diagnosis by brain scan Date: August 11, 2010 Source: King's College London Summary: Scientists in the UK have developed a pioneering new method of diagnosing autism in adults. For ...

But new research published in PLoS One shows that a much more objective measure—reading a person’s thoughts through an fMRI brain scan—might be able to diagnose autism with close to perfect ...

(CBS) Brain scans of infants may predict high risk for autism, new research shows. While symptoms of an autism spectrum disorder usually appear before age three, they are typically not identified ...

A 15-minute brain scan could be all that’s needed to diagnose autism, new research indicates, potentially eliminating the need for time intensive evaluations. In a study of nearly 60 adults — some of ...

When comparing brain scans during the coherent versus scrambled ... State activity – reduced activity found only in children with autism. This signifies active ASD. 2. Trait activity – reduced ...

Brain scans may be able to detect autism in children as young as six months old, according to a first-of-its-kind study happening in Minnesota. “It was a really remarkable finding,” said Dr ...

For the study, researchers analyzed high-quality MRI brain scans from 488 people, including 212 with autism. The team focused on the neural connections emanating from the amygdala when the ...

Brain scans of infants as young as 6 months old may be able to predict whether a child will develop autism, a new study suggests. In the study, researchers found that infants who later developed ...