Background Maternal infection during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of
schizophrenia and autism in the offspring. Supporting this correlation, experimentally activating …

A subset of women who are exposed to infection during pregnancy have an increased risk
of giving birth to a child who will later be diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental or …

Brothers (1990 ) has proposed that the amygdala is an important component of the neural
network that underlies social behavior. Kemper and Bauman (1993 ) identified …

The 2017 American College of Neuropychopharmacology (ACNP) conference hosted a
Study Group on 4 December 2017, Establishing best practice guidelines to improve the rigor, …

Antibodies directed against fetal brain proteins of 37 and 73 kDa molecular weight are
found in approximately 12% of mothers who have children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), …

The amygdala, perhaps more than any other brain region, has been implicated in numerous
neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. It is part of a system initially evolved to …

Observations from human subjects with focal brain lesions and animal subjects with experimental
lesions have implicated a variety of brain regions in the mediation of social behavior. …

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and
intellectual disability (ID), are pervasive, often lifelong disorders, lacking evidence‐based …

… Microanatomical alterations to the cellular structure of the amygdala were first noted by
Bauman and Kemper (30) and subsequently by Schumann and Amaral (31) and Wegiel et al. (32)…

We examined the role of the amygdala in the development of nonhuman primate social
behavior. Twenty-four rhesus monkeys received bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of either the …