Objective tests would be incredibly useful, helping provide an early diagnosis that could lead to therapy in the first year of life, when the brain is the most malleable. A reliable biomarker might also help distinguish various types of autism, divisions that could reveal who would benefit from certain therapies. And some biomarkers may reveal a deeper understanding of how the brain normally develops.
No mention of what those therapies might be. Mmmm, this begs certain moral issues here, akin to those with deaf and intersex folk.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-seek-early-signs-autism
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