Multipurpose tool: The U.S. National Institutes of Health has announced that its NIH Baby Toolbox is now available as an iPad app. It contains more than 30 assessment tools to cover broad areas of development, including cognition, social-emotional function and motor skills. The app uses eye-tracking and touch-based inputs in addition to clinician and parent reports. Data can be viewed as raw scores or in relation to nationwide age-adjusted averages. The toolbox is intended to help clinicians to screen and assess young children from 1 to 42 months old and researchers to craft study parameters and evaluate intervention effects.
The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research
See also: “Cognitive tests may help characterize intellectual disability”
More autism research we spotted:
- “Simultaneous CRISPR screening and spatial transcriptomics reveal intracellular, intercellular, and functional transcriptional circuits” Cell
See also: “Autism genes affect development of neurons and glia” - “SHANK3 modulates RPL3 expression and protein synthesis via mGlu5: Implications for Phelan McDermid syndrome” Molecular Psychiatry
