Altered Visual Processing a Nonverbal Marker of Autism?

Patients with autism may have altered visual processing, which could serve as an objective, nonverbal neural marker of the disorder, new research suggests, according to a Medscape report.

Using electroencephalography (EEG), investigators found that adults with autism have differences in the part of the brain that processes visual information — and these differences can be used to predict which individuals have autism.

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