Early Disease: Autistic boys were more likely than their non-autistic peers to have a serious infection before age 4. SDI Productions / Getty Images Serious infections in early childhood have been linked to autism – at least in some boys, a new study in mice and humans suggests. The results were published today in Science […]
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Continuing treatment: The evidence does not support discontinuation of antipsychotics during pregnancy. Motortion / iStock Children of mothers who take antipsychotic medications during pregnancy are not at increased risk of developing autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), nor are they more likely to be born prematurely or underweight, according to a study published in […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Welcome to this month’s edition of the By the Numbers newsletter! At Spectrum, we do our best to summarize the latest in autism research – and sometimes the best summary comes in the form of a chart or map. In this newsletter we put interesting new research results in a nutshell, […]