Autism as a birth defect

✍ Scribed by Eileen Nicole Simon

• Book ID: 101703809
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 46 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1542-0752
• DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20016

✦ Synopsis

Environmental factors and involvement of facial nuclei and other brainstem sites in known medical conditions associated with autism are admirably presented. Prenatal exposure to alcohol and other drugs can produce variants of Wernicke's encephalopathy, or Wernicke-like patterns of bilaterally symmetric brainstem lesions, with craniofacial anomalies. Oculomotor and facial nuclei, diminished Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, and brainstem nuclei like the inferior olives and relay nuclei of the auditory pathway are often noted as part of Wernicke-type patterns of dam-