r/science Professor | Medicine Jan 30 '25

Neuroscience A low-cost tool accurately distinguishes neurotypical children from children with autism just by watching them copy the dance moves of an on-screen avatar for a minute. It can even tell autism from ADHD, conditions that commonly overlap.

https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/autism-motion-detection-diagnosis/
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u/book_of_black_dreams Jan 31 '25

This is really interesting, but scientists know that the repetitive behaviors found in OCD affect a different part of the brain because medication that works for OCD doesn’t have any effect on the repetitive/obsessive behaviors of autism!