Infant Brain Response to Behaviors Linked to Autism Spectrum Disorders
“Infants’ brain responses to people looking at or away from them may someday help identify those at risk for developing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), researchers found.
In a study of British infants who were shown faces flashed on a computer screen, neural responses distinguished between those considered at risk for an ASD because of an affected sibling, and controls who did not have an affected sibling, according to Mayada Elsabbagh, PhD, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.
The infants’ brain responses to gaze shifts also were related to the development of an ASD by age 3, the researchers reported online in Current Biology.”
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Autism/30875?pfc=40&spc=238
