Daily Archives: May 3, 2013

Big Babies / Little Babies and Autism

Posted on May 3, 2013 by researchinitiative

Bigger birth weight babies at greater risk of autism http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9955 02 May 2013 The biggest study of fetal growth and autism ever has reported that babies whose growth is at either extreme in the womb, either very small or very … Continue reading →

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Caudate Nuclei, Behaviors and Autism

Posted on May 3, 2013 by researchinitiative

Repetitive and self-injurious behaviors: associations with caudate volume in autism and fragile X syndrome http://www.jneurodevdisorders.com/content/5/1/12/abstract Abstract (provisional) Background Following from previous work suggesting that neurobehavioral features distinguish fragile X and idiopathic variants of autism, we investigated the relationships between four … Continue reading →

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