Can Brainwave Test Improve Autism Diagnosis and Subtyping?

The report, by investigators at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, appears online in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. One of the challenges in autism is that we don t know how to classify patients into subgroups or even what those subgroups might be, says study leader Sophie Molholm. This has greatly limited our understanding of the disorder and how to treat it. In addition, Dr. Molholm says, autism diagnosis tends to be “highly subjective and require a tremendous amount of clinical expertise. “ We clearly need a more objective way to diagnose and classify this disorder. An earlier study by Dr. Molholm’s team suggested that brainwave electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings might be useful in measuring the severity of autism. That study found that children with autism process sensory information such as sight, sound and touch less rapidly than typically developing children do. In their new study, Dr. Molholm’s team looked at how sensory-pr
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