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Explore the latestIn a fetal MRI study of 105 pregnancies, chronic placental inflammation was linked to differences in fetal brain connectivity; one weaker connection went with higher autism trait scores at a…
Read articleParent ratings of 479 autistic children in China sorted into 4 social profiles. The most socially engaged group also had the most peer problems; the profiles still need replication.
Read articleAt a Florida neurology practice, 371 of 1,011 autistic patients who had genetic testing (36.7%) had an abnormal result. A seizure history and female sex were linked to higher odds; EEG and M…
Read articleExome sequencing of 31 Rwandan children with autism and both parents found a likely disease-causing variant in 4 children (12.9%), or 9 (29.0%) counting uncertain variants that fit their sym…
Read articleIn a UK registry study of 130 autistic adults on prescribed cannabis, self-rated anxiety and sleep improved most in the first months and partly faded by 18 months as THC doses rose; there wa…
Read articleIn 202 Tokyo outpatients, about 43% of people with major depression and 43% with bipolar disorder reported anxious distress, which was linked to more severe depression in both.
Read articleChina's age-standardized anxiety burden fell 1.2% a year after 2000, yet modeled Global Burden of Disease estimates project 22% more anxiety cases by 2040, with more of the burden in middle …
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