Publications by authors named "A Reichenberg"
A new perspective on the causal pathway between maternal mental health and neonatal adversity.
Arch Womens Ment Health
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how maternal mental health affects birth outcomes, particularly looking at complications and congenital anomalies in newborns, while accounting for maternal physical health and family background.
- - Using data from over 74,000 children born between 1997-2008 in Israel, the researchers found significant links between maternal mental health issues during pregnancy and negative neonatal outcomes, although these links weakened when considering maternal physical health.
- - The findings suggest that both maternal and paternal mental health diagnoses independently contribute to adverse birth outcomes, highlighting the importance of addressing physical health and family dynamics in understanding these associations.
Article Synopsis
- - Increased head circumference is a common finding in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), beginning at birth and continuing into adolescence, indicating differences in brain development.
- - A study compared head sizes of children diagnosed with ASD, those with elevated autistic traits, and typical controls, finding that ASD children consistently had larger head sizes, especially if they also had cognitive learning needs.
- - In contrast, children with elevated autistic traits showed smaller head circumferences, highlighting that those with a formal ASD diagnosis have a distinct growth pattern compared to those without clinical symptoms.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been associated with brain functional, structural, and cognitive changes that persist months after infection. Most studies of the neurologic outcomes related to COVID-19 focus on severe infection and aging populations. Here, we investigated the neural activities underlying COVID-19 related outcomes in a case-control study of mildly infected youth enrolled in a longitudinal study in Lombardy, Italy, a global hotspot of COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Rare copy number variants (CNVs) are pathogenic for neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) and effect neurocognitive impairment. In aggregate, NDD CNVs may present in up to 2% of population cohorts with implications for neuropsychiatric disease risk and cognitive health. However, analyses of NDD CNVs in biobanks or population cohorts have been hindered by limited clinical or cognitive phenotypes, and a lack of ancestral diversity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Racial differences in prevalence rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have shifted in the United States (US) since the 1990s. This review addresses the nature and context of this shift and discusses potential contributing factors and areas for future research.
Methods: Seventeen population-based epidemiological birth cohort studies on ASD prevalence in the US that included race as a variable are included in the review.