{"id":195716,"date":"2024-09-05T09:25:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/uva-research-cracks-the-autism-code-making-the-neurodivergent-brain-visible"},"modified":"2024-09-05T09:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:25:39","slug":"uva-research-cracks-the-autism-code-making-the-neurodivergent-brain-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/uva-research-cracks-the-autism-code-making-the-neurodivergent-brain-visible","title":{"rendered":"UVA Research Cracks the Autism Code, Making the Neurodivergent Brain Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uva-research-cracks-the-autism-code-making-the-neurodivergent-brain-visible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A multi-university research team co-led by University of Virginia engineering professor Gustavo K. Rohde has developed a system that can spot genetic markers of autism in brain images with 89 to 95% accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings suggest doctors may one day see, classify and treat autism and related neurological conditions with this method, without having to rely on, or wait for, behavioral cues. And that means this truly personalized medicine could result in earlier interventions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutism is traditionally diagnosed behaviorally but has a strong genetic basis. A genetics-first approach could transform understanding and treatment of autism,\u201d the researchers wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adl5307\" target=\"_blank\">paper published June 12<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their\u2026 A multi-university research team co-led by University of Virginia engineering professor Gustavo K. Rohde has developed a system that can spot genetic markers of autism in brain images with 89 to 95% accuracy. Their findings suggest doctors may one day see, classify and treat autism and related neurological conditions with this method, without having [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195716","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}