While a mother of an autistic child is pregnant, she develops an immune retroaction to her fetus's brain. As part of that immune response, her body develops antibodies that can attack the fetal brain. Now, in new inquiry in mice, scientists have discovered that the mother's fetal brain antibodies are circulated back to the fetus through the placenta, at all triggering congestion in the brain that could eventually result in autism.

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