Small test may diagnose autism, research suggests : MEDICINE & HEALTH : Science Times: A person with autism may be diagnosed with a smell test, a study suggests.
Normal individuals respond to pleasant smell by taking a deep breath, while for bad odor, they are more likely to limit their breathing. Researchers, however, discovered that autistic children do not react to any at all. In fact, those with autism show different sniffing patterns than normal children.
"We can identify autism and its severity with meaningful accuracy within less than 10 minutes using a test that is completely non-verbal and entails no task to follow," Noam Sobel, who works for Weizmann Institute of Science, and a principal researcher of the study.
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