{"id":141087,"date":"2022-06-25T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/retina-recordings-could-be-the-key-to-identifying-autism-and-adhd-in-children"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:03:55","slug":"retina-recordings-could-be-the-key-to-identifying-autism-and-adhd-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/retina-recordings-could-be-the-key-to-identifying-autism-and-adhd-in-children","title":{"rendered":"Retina recordings could be the key to identifying Autism and ADHD in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/retina-recordings-could-be-the-key-to-identifying-autism-and-adhd-in-children.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is critical for treatment and symptom management processes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers from the University of South Australia has found that recordings from the retina may be used to distinguish unique signals for both ADHD and ASD, offering a possible biomarker for each disorder. According to a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unisa.edu.au\/media-centre\/Releases\/2022\/when-it-comes-to-adhd-and-asd-the-eyes-could-reveal-all\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> published by the institution, The team used the \u201celectroretinogram\u201d (ERG), a diagnostic test that measures the electrical <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/light-sensing-cells-brought-back\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/light-sensing-cells-brought-back\">activity of the retina<\/a> in response to light, and found out that children with ASD showed less ERG energy while children with ADHD displayed more ERG energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is critical for treatment and symptom management processes. Now, a team of researchers from the University of South Australia has found that recordings from the retina may be used to distinguish unique signals for both ADHD and ASD, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}