Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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324563 | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 2014 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Although early growth abnormalities in ASD are less common than previously thought, their presence is predictive of lower social, verbal, and nonverbal skills at 4 years, suggesting that they may constitute a biomarker for identifying toddlers with ASD at risk for less-optimal outcomes. The results highlight that the search for mechanisms underlying atypical brain development in ASD should consider factors responsible for both neural and nonneural tissue development during prenatal and early postnatal periods, and can be informed by the finding that early overgrowth may be more readily observed in males than in females with ASD.
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Authors
Daniel J. PhD, Joseph PhD, Katarzyna PhD,