Antidepressant use in pregnancy and risk of offspring ADHD?

Here we go again. Antidepressant use during pregnancy comes under the spotlight yet again ( see here ) as per the findings reported by Tako...

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On migration status and offspring autism severity

" Black women from East Africa had more than 3.5 times the odds of autism spectrum disorder with intellectual disability in their chi...

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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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Parental autoimmunity and offspring autism risk... yet again

Here we go again. " A positive association between maternal autoimmune diseases and the risk of ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  in off...

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Elevated offspring autism in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

" Compared to children from the general population, children born to women with SLE  [ systemic lupus erythematosus ]  have an increase...

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Smoking during pregnancy and autism risk: no association (again)

Question: Does tobacco smoking during pregnancy elevate the risk of offspring autism? Answer: According to the meta-analysis published by Sh...

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Psychiatric history + infection during pregnancy increases the risk of psychosis in offspring

The title of this (hopefully) brief post mirrors the conclusion reached by Åsa Blomström and colleagues [1] who analysed data pertinent to ...

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