How severe maternal inflammation can lead to autism-like behavior

Monday, February 1, 2016 - 08:11 in Health & Medicine

In 2010, a large study in Denmark found that women who suffered an infection severe enough to require hospitalization while pregnant were much more likely to have a child with autism (even though the overall risk of delivering a child with autism remained low). Now research from MIT, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the […]

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