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MRIs predict which high-risk babies will develop autism as toddlers

 

This first-of-its-kind study used MRIs to image the brains of infants, and then researchers used brain measurements and a computer algorithm to accurately predict autism before symptoms set in

 

Date: February 15, 2017

 

Source: University of North Carolina Health Care

 

Summary: Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in infants with older siblings with autism, researchers from around the country were able to correctly predict 80 percent of those infants who would later meet criteria for autism at two years of age.

 

 

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Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain (stock image). This new study is the first to show it is possible to identify which infants will be diagnosed with autism at 24 months of age.

Credit: © Maxim Pavlov / Fotolia

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in infants with older siblings with autism, researchers from around the country were able to correctly predict 80 percent of those infants who would later meet criteria for autism at two years of age.

 

 

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