Could We Assess Autism in Children with a Simple Eye Reflex Test?

1st March, 2024

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[Source: ScienceDaily]

Scientists at UC San Francisco may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children’s eyes move when they turn their heads.

They found that kids who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with severe autism are hypersensitive to this motion.

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