Autism Test in Children May Turn to the Eyes
St. Louis Dispatch
One of the most frustrating aspects of autism for doctors and parents is the lack of a definitive tool for diagnosing the developmental disorder in children.
Now, researchers at the University of Missouri at Columbia report some early results that point to a potential testing method involving the pupil of the eye.
Using changes in light, the researchers compared the pupil response times of children with autism to a control group of other children.
The pupils of young people who had previously been diagnosed with autism were slower to constrict when presented with a flash of light.
The test was 92.5 percent accurate in predicting which children had autism, researchers said.
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Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments | Category: Autism | Tags: Austism, Austism testing, Caregiving
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