Brain Response Predicts Treatment Outcome in Young Children with ASD (IMAGE)

George Washington University

Brain Response Predicts Treatment Outcome in Young Children with ASD

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Using fMRI, researchers identified four distinct brain regions (left column) in 20 children with ASD who were shown images containing biological vs. scrambled motion before treatment. When their brain responses were higher in these regions, they were more able to respond positively to PRT. The scatterplots (right column) indicate that children who responded more strongly to biological motion initially tend to show more of a decrease in the severity of their ASD symptoms after PRT, suggesting that the treatment was more beneficial.

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Daniel Yang

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