USA Today (2/8, Weintraub) reports “signs of autism can be picked up as early as the first month of life, according to a” study that used “electronic medical records of 45,000 children” to “train and evaluate machine-learning models.” The “final algorithm was able to predict the babies who later developed autism, distinguishing them from those who later developed ADHD or other neurodevelopmental diagnoses.” These findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.
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— “New algorithm detects autism in infants. How might that change care? “Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, February 8, 2023