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Adam J. O Dede, Wenyi Xiao, Nemanja Vaci, Michael X Cohen, Elizabeth Milne (2023). Lack of univariate, clinically-relevant biomarkers of autism in resting state EEG: a study of 776 participants. openRxiv.
Résumé
ABSTRACT Mental health conditions are difficult to diagnose, requiring expert clinicians and subjective judgements. There has been interest in finding quantitative biomarkers using resting state electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Here, we focus on resting state EEG biomarkers of autism. Although many previous reports have pointed to differences between autistic and neurotypical participants, results have often failed to replicate and sample sizes have typically been small. Taking a big-data, open-science approach, we combined data from 5 studies to create a large sample of autistic and neurotypical individuals (n=776) and used high-power computing to extract 942 variables from each participant’s data. Using a systematic, preregistered analysis pipeline, we failed to identify even a single EEG-based variable that could serve as a practically useful biomarker of autism clinical diagnosis. Our results highlight that a biomarker for autism drawn from EEG data is an elusive construct that may not exist.
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