Early pregnancy vitamin D levels and later offspring 'behavioral difficulties'?

Drawing on data derived from the  Rhea mother-child cohort based in Crete, Greece, the findings reported by Vasiliki Daraki and colleagues ...

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Antidepressants during pregnancy and autism in offspring (with care)

There are a few topic areas in the quite vast autism research landscape that consistently seem to keep cropping up. The possibility of some ...

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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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One more time folks... pregnancy folate and autism risk

Folate yet again on this blog ? Sorry but that's just how the peer-reviewed papers have fallen... " Maternal folate supplementatio...

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Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and autism continued

I wanted to briefly talk about the paper by Francesca Garofoli and colleagues [1] on congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and autism...

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On genotype and environmental exposure patterns

I was rather interested to read the paper by Michela Traglia and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) concluding that: " mate...

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