Autism spectrum disorder

C Lord, TS Brugha, T Charman, J Cusack… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder is a construct used to describe individuals with a specific
combination of impairments in social communication and repetitive behaviours, highly …

Neuroinflammation in autism spectrum disorders: Exercise as a “pharmacological” tool

CVA Toscano, L Barros, AB Lima, T Nunes… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The worldwide prevalence of ASD is around 1%. Although the pathogenesis of ASD is not
entirely understood, it is recognized that a combination of genetic, epigenetics …

Maternal obesity and the impact of associated early-life inflammation on long-term health of offspring

M Denizli, ML Capitano, KL Kua - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The prevalence of obesity is increasingly common in the United States, with~ 25% of women
of reproductive age being overweight or obese. Metaflammation, a chronic low grade …

Current knowledge about the impact of maternal and infant nutrition on the development of the microbiota–gut–brain axis

T Cerdó, A Nieto-Ruíz, JA García-Santos… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The prenatal and early postnatal periods are stages during which dynamic changes and the
development of the brain and gut microbiota occur, and nutrition is one of the most important …

Fetal brain and placental programming in maternal obesity: A review of human and animal model studies

LL Shook, S Kislal, AG Edlow - Prenatal diagnosis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Both human epidemiologic and animal model studies demonstrate that prenatal and
lactational exposure to maternal obesity and high‐fat diet are associated with adverse …

Modeled prenatal exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in association with child autism spectrum disorder: A case-control study

HM Shin, DH Bennett, AM Calafat, D Tancredi… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background/objective Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) display neurobehavioral
toxicity in laboratory animal studies. We examined associations of modeled prenatal …

Maternal prepregnancy weight and gestational weight gain in association with autism and developmental disorders in offspring

SL Matias, M Pearl, K Lyall, LA Croen, TVE Kral… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Maternal prepregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain (GWG) are examined in
relation to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disorders (DD) in …

The impact of maternal obesity on childhood neurodevelopment

L Tong, BT Kalish - Journal of Perinatology, 2021 - nature.com
There is growing clinical and experimental evidence to suggest that maternal obesity
increases children's susceptibility to neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders …

Exploring potential impacts of pregnancy-related maternal immune activation and extracellular vesicles on immune alterations observed in autism spectrum disorder

V de Lima Kaminski, RT Michita, JH Ellwanger, TD Veit… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a set of neurodevelopmental disorders usually
observed in early life, with impacts on behavioral and social skills. Incidence of ASD has …

Prenatal phenol and paraben exposures in relation to child neurodevelopment including autism spectrum disorders in the MARBLES study

JM Barkoski, SA Busgang, M Bixby, D Bennett… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Environmental phenols and parabens are endocrine disrupting chemicals
(EDCs) with the potential to affect child neurodevelopment including autism spectrum …