Researchers found that autism starts much earlier than childhood in a new study. Those diagnosed with autism may have actually developed the disorder while they were still in the womb.
READ MORE:Scientists have grappled with the puzzle of autism's origins for decades - now a study suggests a bad cold or flu during pregnancy could be a cause.
Researchers have found that autism could develop while a fetus is in the womb. When a pregnant woman gets a severe cold or flu, her immune response could cause a neurological reaction in the baby's brain Irene Sanchez Martin, a postdoctoral student at CSHL, said that her recent experiments with mice showed that when the mother contracted a virus, the embryo's brain development slowed.
Her work did not look at other factors that cause mothers' immune systems to go into overdrive, such as in response to a vaccine, being obese or having underlying conditions. Prenatal inflammation is thought to impact how the growing baby's brain organizes the neural networks which connect cells and synapses.
Additional research is still needed to unravel the connection between the immune system's reaction to a virus and how it impacts the fetus. However, she is hopeful that future findings could help doctors recognize the early warning signs of autism before a child is born.
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