Autism Test Could Use Images of Brain
I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Doctors currently identify autism disorders by observing behavior. Autism affects social and communication skills. It usually first appears in young children. Now, researchers in the United States think they have found a biological test for autism. A team from Harvard University in Massachusetts and the University of Utah developed it.The test uses an MRI or magnetic resonance imaging machine to look for abnormalities in the brain. Other studies have not shown major structural differences between the brains of autistic people and those without autism. But the latest study did not look at the large structures of the brain. Instead, Harvard’s Nicholas Lange says the team looked at the circuitry — the chemical and electrical pathways that link the different parts of the brain. He says: “The brain may be OK, the parts that do the work may be OK. But the wiring, the cables between the points in the brain, one to another, may be disrupted in some way.”The scientists did MRI scans on sixty males between the ages of eight and twenty-six. Thirty of them had been identified as having mild autism, a form also known as high-functioning autism.The researchers looked at the connections in two areas of the brain that control language and social behavior. They used a technique called diffusion tensor imaging. This way they could observe microscopic fibers to see how well the brain circuitry …
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Barbara L. Trommer MD Pediatric Neurology . Associate Director, Maimonides Developmental Center . Medical School: Columbia University . Fellowship: Children’s Memorial Hospital Northwestern University Medical School Pediatric Neurology
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the ray people took it away because they were sick of me calling them out. and i still have the same ability to lie. They don’t. Their minds are simple and use memory+social acceptance. My math abilities are underdeveloped but higher.
the same thing happens to us schizophrenic people or kind’of the opposite for awhile because we know a more complex reality, which makes us boxing clever. You took my marble, and now I have to pretend that I gave it to you and ask for it back.
ToM is something you test so late in story that it’s useless & arbitrary in sense that you can’t test it until way to late.
Besides, children are conditioned to be truthful (to tell you a lie is useful to you) so they won’t answer anything but truth anyway.
Stick to Initiated Joint Attention testing to diagnosis at 14 months with 94% accuracy.