Autism clues before age 3

AUTISM: Autism is one of a group of serious developmental problems called autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that appear in early childhood — usually before age 3. Though symptoms and severity vary, all autism disorders affect a child's ability to communicate and interact with others. Autism is a physical condition linked to abnormal biology and chemistry in the brain. The exact causes of these ...

In the brain, an earlier sign of autism

Measuring brain activity in infants as young as six months may help to predict the future development of autism symptoms. In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them. The findings suggest that direct brain measures might help to predict the future development of autism symptoms in infants as ...

Eye contact helps detect autism

Sydney, Jan 30 : Unusual patterns of eye contact could help detect developing autism symptoms in babies just six months old, reveals a study.

Earlier autism diagnosis

La Trobe University psychologist Dr Kristelle Hudry, from the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre on the Melbourne campus, is one of the key researchers in the international study. She says the results of the study ‘Infant neural sensitivity to dynamic eye gaze is associated with later emerging autism’ have been published in the journal Current Biology. Abstract:  Measuring how a baby’s brain ...

Sign Of Autism Can Be Seen In Infants

A recent study that took place at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, and was published in the January edition of Current Biology, states that detecting autism symptoms in babies as young as 6 months old can help to determine how the autism will develop later in the child's life. The researches found that babies show signs of autism in their first year ...