The latest in a number of theories as to what causes the distressing ailment to children..This theory is according a study by Stanford University.. They compared cases of autism in identical and fraternal twins and found that fraternal twins – who share only half of the same genes – have unusually high rates of autism. Reuters reports further:
“In another, researchers at health insurer Kaiser Permanente found mothers of children with autism were twice as likely to have been prescribed a common antidepressant during the year before their pregnancy than mothers of healthy children.
And the risk was even greater – a threefold increase – when the drug was taken in the first trimester of pregnancy.
*Another* new study suggests that autism may be triggered in the womb
