Researchers
are looking at a link between a mother's immune system during pregnancy
and the development of autism in children. They found that antibodies in the blood of mothers of kids with autism bind to fetal brain cells,
and may be responsible for problems in brain development. This was
observed in mothers of children with a particular kind of "late-onset"
autism, where development seems fine up to a point, and then switches
to a loss in language and social skills. There's hope that this finding
will ultimately result in prenatal tests and interventions.
So
why does a fetal event result in autism that shows up much later?
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