Placental inflammation and autism?

The placenta . Quite an important part of the nine months that makes us; an organ exquisitely evolved to provide oxygen and nutrition to the...

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MoBa does prenatal fever and autism risk

' MoBa does.. ' is fast becoming a common title on this blog ( see here and see here ). Referring to the  Norwegian Mother and Chil...

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Autism, pregnancy maternal immune activation and vitamin D?

Today's post is a bit of a mash-up, drawing on two articles quite recently published in the peer-reviewed science domain. The first is b...

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HSV-2 gestational infection and offspring autism risk

" In our cohort, high levels of antibodies to herpes simplex virus 2 at midpregnancy were associated with an elevated risk of autism s...

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