Research team lands $9.5M grant for infant autism study

A joint research effort between the Washington University School of Medicine and University of North Carolina has received a $9.5 million grant to advance a study into whether brain imaging can detect autism risk in early infancy. Researchers in the Infant Brain Imaging Study are attempting to identify differences in the brain scans of infants at high risk of autism in the belief that they can give doctors a better chance at starting interventions earlier.  A first phase of the study involved…
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