Newsweek: "Breakthrough in understanding of how autism develops in the womb"
Brain overgrowth in early fetal development
Research (well-funded, I’m sure) from the UC San Diego is making the news.
Newsweek calls it “a breakthrough.”
The lead researcher, Dr. Eric Courchesne, has found that autism can be predicted from brain overgrowth in developing fetuses.
“We found the larger the embryonic brain cortical organoid size, the more severe the child's later autism social symptoms…
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