Monday, 18 October 2010
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Brain Scans To Potentially Diagnose Autism
Have you heard about the new test for autism? It is a new brain scan that is being reported as able to diagnose ASD within 15 minutes. The cost is between $157 and $314. It won’t be available to the public for another two years, though. It is currently still in the experimental stage.
As more research is done for this, I hope that the result will be that it is successful for children. Currently, the testing has only been done on 20 adult test subjects. That is a very small number. Skeptics are not totally sold on this new way to diagnose autism. They want to see more research, with more test subjects, including children.
I agree. Before it can be said that this is an accurate form of diagnosing, there needs to be more research done. I don’t understand why this particular diagnosis tool would need two years of research. Can’t they get a large number of children that are already diagnosed with autism, scan them, and compare that to an equal number of children that do not have the diagnosis of autism? And can’t they do the same for adults? I would think that doing so would give them a good idea if this works or not.
I can’t help but think of the benefits that this would have if proven successful. It would mean that you don’t have to wait months to get a developmental pediatrician to evaluate your child. You will also have medical proof that the public school system could not argue with. I think that this is one area of research that needs to be pushed into the forefront of autism research.
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Amen! All three of mine are in a brain study!
It takes forever to get the grants necessary to do this, to get IRB approval (particiularly difficult when children are involved), to get participants and get their consent, and then the study has to be completed, adn then the results have to be analyzed, and then it has to get published and peer-reviewed. Only 2 years is actually quite fast for such things.
mine just showed schizophrenia.
@jenessa1889@xanga - not to mention the fact of getting Autistic children into the scanners.
in hindsight however this is relatively simple to do for adults with Autism if you run fMRI scans directed towards the temporal poles and junctions.
@robbiearnold@xanga - haha so true. that can be difficult with "normal" adults and children
@robbiearnold@xanga - Absolutely. We could definitely get my son to do it, but my daughter...the local constabulary may have to be summoned for the protection of their expensive equipment.
They are doing it at Yale and they have tricks and ways to get the kids to agree. All three of mine did it.