Autism Eye Scan Could Lead to Early Detection

24th February, 2020

28 February 2020, Autism, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Medical X-Press]

A new eye scan could help identify autism in children years earlier than currently possible.

The non-invasive eye scan utilises a hand-held device to find a pattern of subtle electrical signals in the retina that are different in children on the autism spectrum, which are directly linked to differences in their brain development.

The scan was tested on about 180 people with and without autism between the ages of 5 and 21 in collaboration with Yale University in the US, University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital in the UK, as part of a study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

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