Sentences with phrase «risk of autism»

There are also suggested links to other impacts on the neurological development of children, including an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder.

PCOS has far reaching consequences, including an increased risk of autism in offspring.

The children of older fathers have much higher risk of autism and other complications than those of younger ones do.

Previously, research has shown that children at risk of an autism diagnosis respond less to hearing their own name.

Prior studies have suggested that, in addition to genetics, exposure to airborne environmental contaminants, particularly during pregnancy and early life, may affect risk of autism.

Is habitual toe - walking in children linked to an increased risk of autism and other cognitive disorders?

This device, used once a month for an entire day, records babies at risk of autism.

The results demonstrated the expected higher rates of autism in males compared to females, but also showed a significantly greater risk of autism for siblings of females with autism, compared to siblings of males with autism.

A study in the journal, Epidemiology, reports that babies conceived during winter had a significantly greater risk of autism.

A study has also revealed double the increase of risk of autism spectrum disorders linked to the use SSRI antidepressants in pregnancy, with the strongest effect linked to treatment in the 1st trimester.

Title: CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls Author: H. Stefansson et al..

The latest findings show that genetic defects in the body's ability to manufacture carnitine might be associated with an increased risk of autism because carnitine deficiency interferes with the normal processes by which neural stem cells promote and organize embryonic and fetal brain development.

«Preemies at high risk of autism don't show typical signs of disorder in early infancy.»

The earliest autism intervention study in the world that uses video to provide feedback to parents of babies at family risk of autism, has indicated a reduction in the severity of emerging signs of autism.

The study was conducted in more than 1,000 children between the ages of two and three years enrolled in the Childhood Risks of Autism from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study in Northern California.

Scientists used a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), known as diffusion weighted imaging, to measure the brain connectivity in 260 infants at the ages of 6 and 12 months, who had either high or low risks of autism.

Children of fathers older than 50 — that includes me — had a ninefold risk of autism.

Earlier this year, researchers showed that people with a gene variant associated with autism and high exposure to air pollution had an increased risk of autism over people with the same gene variant but lower exposure to air pollution.

«If the increased risk of autism really is associated with increased levels of vitamins then the crucial thing surely is the concentration in the baby at birth?

In a study featured in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet explained that children born to women with PCOS have a 59 percent risk of autism compared to children whose mothers do not have the disorder.

Factors associated with a higher risk of autism include having parents older than 30, maternal illness during pregnancy, genetic mutations, birth before 37 weeks» gestation and a multiple birth.

Studying a large sample and using a prospective longitudinal design, this study demonstrated that the sibling recurrence risk of autism spectrum disorder is substantially higher than previous estimates.

Other studies have shown an increased risk of autism in children born to women with Hashimoto's hypothyroidism.

«The findings from this study suggest that, although the absolute risk is relatively small, when compared to children from the general population, children born to women with lupus have a two-fold increased risk of autism spectrum disorders,» says Dr. Vinet.

Notably, the study reported no significant increased risk of autism for women who gave birth to singleton children.

Title: CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls Author: H. Stefánsson et al..

If it will be less than 12 months since you last gave birth, you have a greater risk of placental abruption and placenta previa with this pregnancy, and your child has a greater risk of autism.

Conceiving within 12 months of giving birth has even been linked to a higher risk of autism in the second child.

«Early warning sign for babies at risk of autism: Early joint attention predicts later autism symptoms.»

The day after Henry was born, while we were still bleary - eyed from a late - night cesarean delivery, we caught part of a report on the hospital television about an increased risk of autism in the children of older fathers.

Taking folic acid prior to conceiving and early in pregnancy may lower your child's risk of autism.

And these same women who are willing to bet the lives and health of their babies against such enormous odds, then refuse to allow those children to be vaccinated because of the «risk of autism» (I know there is no risk and that theory is utter bunk, I'm just discussing their thinking on the subject).

Prenatals may even reduce the risk of autism and provide your baby with the nutrients it needs.

Recently, researchers from Harvard and Mt Sinai found that both environmental chemicals and environmental stress can disrupt the development of a fetus» brain and negatively impact the baby's long - term health, even increasing the risk of autism spectrum disorders.

But the fact is something in the genetic make up and hormones of baby boys expose them to a higher risk of autism than girls (for those who can not sleep without knowing so those weird medical terms, girls tend to have lower levels of vasopressin and higher levels of natural oxytocin).

But over the past decade, researchers have identified hundreds of gene variations that seem to affect brain development in ways that increase the risk of autism.

Taking antidepressants during pregnancy does not increase the risk of autism or attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, two new large studies suggest.

Studies have shown an association between the risk of autism spectrum disorder and vitamin D insufficiency.

Other factors, such as older parents and maternal obesity, can also increase the risk of autism.

The researchers found four regions in the genome which dramatically affect the risk of autism or schizophrenia.

This is intriguing given that inflammation during pregnancy, which alters MHCI levels in the fetal brain, may slightly increase the risk of autism in genetically predisposed individuals, she said.

The segment contains several genes, one of which raises the risk of autism.

In addition to suffering growth abnormalities, patients with this disorder also have abnormally large brains and an increased risk of autism.

In the new study, perinatal epidemiologist Anick Bérard, at the University of Montreal in Canada, and colleagues used data collected on 145,456 infants born in Quebec between January 1998 and December 2009 to calculate the risk of autism among babies whose mothers had used one or more antidepressants while pregnant.

«Children whose mothers have lupus might be at increased risk of autism spectrum disorders.»