Autism spectrum disorder at the crossroad between genes and environment: contributions, convergences, and interactions in ASD developmental pathophysiology.
Cristina Cheroni, Nicolò Caporale, Giuseppe Testa
PMID 32912338WHAT IT FOUND
No original patient outcomes or intervention results are reported, so there is nothing here to change therapy practice.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review of autism spectrum disorder pathophysiology, covering genetic risk, environmental exposures, gene-environment interactions, and laboratory models. It summarizes published studies and ideas, but it reports no original participants, methods, or outcomes, so there is no finding here that therapists can act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this review as evidence that a therapy works or that a specific exposure caused autism in an individual patient.