Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault is a child psychiatrist, professor of physiology, head of an Inserm team and of the Exac-t center of excellence at the University Hospital of Tours and the Grand Ouest University Hospitals.
For fifteen years now, research in the field of neurosciences has made it possible to make great progress in understanding the mechanisms involved in autism.
Autism, and more generally autism spectrum disorder, by grouping together all the clinical forms, is thus linked to a disorder of development and cerebral functioning.
This brain development disorder occurs very early since, during pregnancy, the first brain connections are already in place.
Genetic studies and microscopic analyzes of brain tissue, as well as the study of retrospective data during in utero development, have been able to demonstrate that the disorder of cerebral development starts from the period of gestation.
We now know...
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