Brain Imaging Explains Reason for Language Outcomes in ASD Toddlers

13th April, 2015

17 April 2015, Autism, Language, News of the Week, SLP

[Source: Science Daily]

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers say it may be possible to predict future language development outcomes in toddlers with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), even before they’ve been formally diagnosed with the condition.

The findings are published in the April 9 online issue of the journal Neuron.
A major challenge of ASD diagnosis and treatment is that the neurological condition — which affects 1 in 68 children in the United States, mostly boys — is considerably heterogeneous. Early symptoms differ between each ASD toddler, as does progression of the condition. No uniform clinical phenotype exists, in part because the underlying causes for different subtypes of autism are diverse and not well-understood.
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