Front Matter

296 Index Gore, Al 235 Grandin, Professor Temple 53, 59–60 guanine deaminase 244 gustation 83 gustatory diagnostic assessment 85 ...

Index 297 l lactose tolerance 3, 4 LDH 243, 245 LDH A 244 LDH B 244 lead 170, 177t leaky gut syndrome 9 leukemia 15 Life 60 Linc ...

298 Index neuroblastoma cell line (NBC) 76, 132, 171 neuroblastomas 159–60 neuroendocrine axes 215 neurofibromatosis 169 neurofi ...

Index 299 oxytocin receptor depleted (knockout) mice 107 oxytocin receptors 105, 106t developmental trajectories in rat brain 10 ...

300 Index Reading the Mind in the Eyes (RMET) test 108 refrigerator mother theory 57, 67, 146, 169 regressive autism 42, 63, 65, ...

Index 301 synthetic musks 13, 37, 76, 131, 170, 178–9, 186–91 exposure to 189–91 in fish and shellfish 191 in food 191 in food c ...

302 Index vaccines 41–2 contents 265–70 live weakened 267 organomercurial 4–5, 42, 149, 271, 272–3 politics versus science 262–4 ...

Autism and Environmental Factors, First Edition. Omar Bagasra and Cherilyn Heggen. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published ...

Smoky shrew Guinea pig Marmoset Capybara 1cm Squirrel monkey 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm Capuchin monkey Human Macaque monkey Agouti Galago ...

(a)(b) Figure 1.10 (a) A normal brain neural network versus (b) ASD brain neural network. ...

Hind brain Hind brain Mid brain Mid brain Mid brain Mid brain Fore brain Fore brain Spinal cord Spinal cord Typical child Cerebr ...

Exome sequencing Exons Exome Transcription, elimination of intron transcript segments, and splicing of exons Figure 1.13 Illustr ...

123 45678916 20–36 Period of dividing zygote, Embryonic period, weeks Fetal period, weeks implantation and embryo, weeks Palate ...

Tr act Thalamus Amygdala Hippocampus Raphe nucleus Locus ceruleus Pituitary gland Hypothalamus Olfactory bulb Odor/smell stimula ...

(a) (b) (c) 1 A B C D E 234 5 6 7 8 9 Day 0Day 2Day 4Day 6Day 8 NBC cell line containing unknown numbers of progenitor cells Gro ...

Release of fetal brain antigens Early stage fetus Environmental factors enter pregnant mother’s circulatory systems at early sta ...

Normal myelin in MS Cell body Damaged myelin in MS Myelin Damaged myelin (demyelination) Normal Nerve fibre (axon) Distorted mes ...

Neuroantigens/Abs LDHA/B STIPl CRMPl OTR AVPR Immune system Dendritic cells Migration to the CNS Protective (destructive) Neurod ...

Luminal membrane Blood Hg Endothelial cell Abluminal membrane Luminal membrane Blood Hg Endothelial cell Tight junction Astrocyt ...