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Can Asperger’s be diagnosed by a neurologist using an EEG?

Mark Smith said:
Just wondering as this would seem a lot more convenient
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The basis of diagnosis is behaviour and whether you could speak and how much you could speakat a very young age I presume you're not two or three years old ,therefore an EEG would not work
to clarify an EEG would show up activity in the speech Centre ,the amygdala which could also point to lack of socialisation from early childhood or Brain damage.
The brain damage category could change over a short period of time .
 
Streetwise said:
The basis of diagnosis is behaviour and whether you could speak and how much you could speakat a very young age I presume you're not two or three years old ,therefore an EEG would not work
to clarify an EEG would show up activity in the speech Centre ,the amygdala which could also point to lack of socialisation from early childhood or Brain damage.
The brain damage category could change over a short period of time .
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Regardless of age, Autism/Asperger’s is caused by abnormally-functioning neurons which should make it possible to detect by brain imaging technology. I was just wondering if I could just go straight to a neurologists and get tested.
 
At this time there is no way to diagnose autism using EEG or brain imagining (CAT scan, MRI).

There is plenty of research looking for physiological markers of autism in EEG activity or brain structure but none have been found yet -- none for certain/none that have been proven to exist in all autistic people.
 
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the_tortoise said:
At this time there is no way to diagnose autism using EEG or brain imagining (CAT scan, MRI).

There is plenty of research looking for physiological markers of autism in EEG activity or brain structure but none have been found yet -- none for certain/none that have been proven to exist in all autistic people.
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Indeed, researchers have found nothing (so-to-speak) because the genes that cause autism are widely present in all apes, and phenotipically expressed epigenetically. One must examine the brain itself after death, sliced and diced and microscopically as well as macroscopically, to see how autistic brains and central nervous systems are different than non-autistic brains. So far there have not been enough brains to study, but several researchers are working on collecting more autistic brains to study.

If autistic people wish to donate their barins to science, https://autismbrainnet.org/ is one place to visit.
 
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