Carnegie Mellon University
December 02, 2014

Brain Representations of Social Thoughts Accurately Predict Autism Diagnosis

Brain Representations of Social Thoughts Accurately Predict Autism Diagnosis Led by Psychology Professor Marcel Just, CMU researchers have created brain-reading techniques that use neural representations of social thoughts to predict autism diagnoses with 97 percent accuracy, establishing the first biologically based diagnostic tool that measures a person's thoughts to detect the disorder.

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