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| Title |
Environmental Factors in Autism
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychiatry, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00118 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andreas M. Grabrucker |
| Abstract |
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairments in communication and social behavior, and by repetitive behaviors. Although genetic factors might be largely responsible for the occurrence of autism they cannot fully account for all cases and it is likely that in addition to a certain combination of autism-related genes, specific environmental factors might act as risk factors triggering the development of autism. Thus, the role of environmental factors in autism is an important area of research and recent data will be discussed in this review. Interestingly, the results show that many environmental risk factors are interrelated and their identification and comparison might unveil a common scheme of alterations on a contextual as well as molecular level. For example, both, disruption in the immune system and in zinc homeostasis may affect synaptic transmission in autism. Thus, here, a model is proposed that interconnects the most important and scientifically recognized environmental factors. Moreover, similarities in how these risk factors impact synapse function are discussed and a possible influence on an already well described genetic pathway leading to the development of autism via zinc homeostasis is proposed. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 6 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 453 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 448 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 72 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 65 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 59 | 13% |
| Researcher | 37 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 26 | 6% |
| Other | 79 | 17% |
| Unknown | 115 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 67 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 57 | 13% |
| Neuroscience | 51 | 11% |
| Psychology | 50 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 33 | 7% |
| Other | 66 | 15% |
| Unknown | 129 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 May 2023.
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