National Geographic - Finding the Early signs of Autism
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/m...overy-feature/
The brains of infants who develop the disorder grow too fast, researchers say. The finding may allow for treatments that limit autism's effects.
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The results suggest that infants who go on to develop autism see the world in a fundamentally different way. This profoundly alters how they handle social interactions, which in turn has a cascading effect on their brain development, possibly leading to later impairments. “What seems to be happening is that our children with autism are missing thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of experiences of social learning,” Klin says.
https://www.unc.edu/posts/2019/06/10...utism-earlier/
Babies in the study will receive MRI scans while they are sleeping. Those tests will be performed when the infants are 6 and 12 months old, to analyze both the brain’s structure and its functional connections. Infants also will be evaluated for language development, repetitive behaviors, social responsiveness and other behaviors that may help predict an autism diagnosis well before the age of 2.
The hope, eventually, is to identify autism spectrum disorder at an early age, before symptoms of autism are present or consolidated into a diagnosis.
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