Weaker brain 'sync' may be early sign of autism
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 12:01
in Psychology & Sociology
In a novel imaging study of sleeping toddlers, scientists at the University of California, San Diego Autism Center of Excellence report that a diminished ability of a young brain's hemispheres to "sync" with one another could be a powerful, new biological marker of autism, one that might enable an autism diagnosis at a very young age.