Published On: July 10th, 2013|

Medical Daily – Anoopa Singh

“The myriad causes of autism are the subject of much research and scrutiny. Recent research focuses on events that occur during development before birth in order to explain how autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) occur…A new study at the University of California, Davis’s MIND Institute has identified a maternal autoantibody that acts on the fetus to begin this alteration in brain development that will ultimately lead to autism or ASD.”(more)