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Baby takes part in brain study

Child Development
Four-month-old Matai Reid from Durham took part in a brain study last week to help psychologists at Durham University understand how autism develops in babies.

Matai was fitted with a cap with sensors attached to record how hisbrain responded to moving images on a television screen. Researchershope the study of babies, from newborn to two years old, will helpidentify developmental delays at a younger age and lead to earlierdiagnosis of autism. To take part in the study visitwww.dur.ac.uk/cdp/research/baby-lab.

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