brain scan could help them detect it immediately. the process of scanning joe s brain takes about 15 minutes. the images are then fed into a computer which makes minutely detailed measurements. to the naked eye his brain looks pretty much like anybody else s. but those measurements should reveal telling differences. the colored areas are key. the blue ones control behavior, the red and yellow ones, speech and vision. so you look on this screen here, joe, you can see on the left reporter: joe s scan puts him firmly at the autistic end of the spectrum. researchers say the trial is more than 90% accurate. just somebody telling you you ve got asperger s from my perspective was never enough. i needed to physically see it. i ve actually been waiting for this for an awfully long time. currently the diagnosis of autism needs an expert team. there aren t many of those around. and it takes the expert team many, many hours to reach a
brain scan could help them detect it immediately. the process of scanning joe s brain takes about 15 minutes. the images are then fed into a computer which makes minutely detailed measurements. to the naked eye his brain looks pretty much like anybody else s. but those measurements should reveal telling differences. the colored areas are key. the blue ones control behavior, the red and yellow ones, speech and vision. so you look on this screen here, joe, you can see on the left reporter: joe s scan puts him firmly at the autistic end of the spectrum. researchers say the trial is more than 90% accurate. just somebody telling you you ve got asperger s from my perspective was never enough. i needed to physically see it. i ve actually been waiting for this for an awfully long time. currently the diagnosis of autism needs an expert team. there aren t many of those around. and it takes the expert team many, many hours to reach a diagnosis. and this is a way we hope can cut through