Children whose parents suffer from schizophrenia have. An increased risk of autism by half, according to U.S. scientists According to the scientist Julie Daniels of the University of North Carolina, the study shows that children whose parents increased diagnosed with schizophrenia, two risk of autism, as well as the same risk in children whose mothers suffer from depression and mental disorders. Scientists conducted a study to examine the children of Swedish households born between 1977 - 2003. The study included 1,227 children diagnosed with autism. Experts compared it to 31 thousand families in which children are not autistic. It turned out that. The very clear relationship of autism in families in which one parent schizophrenic or where mothers have often observed depression and mental disturbances I still do not know the exact origin of autism, but researchers suspect that several genes and environmental factors have a big impact. For professionals, it remains a mystery why the presence of depression and some psychiatric disorders in mothers affects only the appearance of autism in children. The scientists are planning further research to clarify this relationship.
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