Biomarkers In the Diagnosis and Assessment of Treatment Effectiveness in a Child with Autism

It is known that children with autism do not respond well to psychological and speech therapy correction and pharmacological treatment. A pressing question of our time is the personalized selection of alternative treatment methods based on data from modern diagnostic methods. The article presents a typical case of autism taking into account history, psychological characteristics, pharmacogenetic testing, EEG features, and results of laboratory studies of serum (BDNF, progranulin, antibodies to myelin basic protein, glutamate). The effectiveness of the therapy being conducted is assessed using biomarkers.