Monday, August 16, 2010

Autism brain scan hype - some evidence-based good thinking to the rescue



I've found a piece written by someone who understands stats and critical thinking of the evidence-based medicine type which takes apart the recent media hype about a study of autism diagnosis using brain scans. It pretty much goes over the same points that I made in my blog post on this subject dated August 11th, but Mr Heneghan explains it more clearly and in more detail. I recommend that you read this:

"Why autism can't be diagnosed with brain scans: Using brain scans to detect autism would be a huge expensive waste of money"

by Carl Heneghan
Guardian.co.uk
Science Blog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/aug/12/autism-brain-scan-statistics


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