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SOURCES: 2009 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Joseph Piven, MD, Autism Specialist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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When Maggie Dennison was a new mom, she knew her first-born son, Matthew was different.
I did notice when Matthew was a, a baby, he used to flap his hands. He parallel played with children.
He was later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, a condition that has genetic connections. So now researchers are taking a closer look at the brains of infants and toddlers.
We are studying 500 infants across the country at four different clinical sites. We're enrolling these children because they have an older sibling with autism.
Brain MRI images are taken at 6,- 12,- and 24- months…a time span when some children will develop autism.
And we want to have images or pictures of their brain going forward before this happens and during the process so that we can understand what the brain mechanisms are that are underlying this change.
Doctor Piven's (PIHH vinnz) hope is that information from the brain images and genetic testing can help identify kids at risk before their first birthday.
And perhaps develop sort of early markers for autism that might give us clues to whose going to develop it, even more clues than we now have with the genetic risk.
Maggie's youngest son is part of the group and has had two MRI's done so far.
Maybe God sent these children to me to help find the diagnosis and, and that's their contribution to this world then, and that we're able to stop this from happening to other children.
Helping unlock answers to the mystery of autism. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.
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