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Scan thoughts about hugging to predict autism

December 3, 2014/

New brain-reading techniques can use neural representations of social thoughts to predict autism diagnoses with 97 percent accuracy.

The work establishes the first biologically based diagnostic tool that measures a person’s thoughts to detect the disorder that affects many children and adults worldwide.

by Shilo Rea-Carnegie Mellon

Full Story: http://www.futurity.org/autism-hugging-thoughts-812612/?utm_source=Futurity+Today&utm_campaign=b10c28738c-December_3_201412_3_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e34e8ee443-b10c28738c-203916893

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