Study finds academic performance impacts even without formal diagnoses
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Researchers observed lower academic performance in children who had TORCH infections but had not been diagnosed with autism or intellectual disability, suggesting broader neurodevelopmental effects. No clear links emerged to ADHD or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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“It is important to emphasise that it is unusual for these infections to be transmitted from mother to child. They account for a very small proportion of all cases of autism in the population, but for those children who are actually affected, we see a clearly elevated risk of both autism and intellectual disability.”
Reneé Gardner, Researcher, Karolinska Institute · reddit ↗
Reneé GardnerResearcher, Karolinska InstituteHugo SjöqvistLead author and PhD student, Karolinska InstituteMark SchleissEditorialist, University of Minnesota
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