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Autism can show symptoms in womb (view pics)

Conditions for autism may develop even before birth, in the second and third trimester of pregnancy, a new study has found.The study points to a disruption in the development of cortex, the outer layers of




They used special techniques to detect and visualise specific types of neurons in the brain's outer layer.

The scientists discovered dense patches in the cortex containing irregular shaped neurons residing in the wrong cortical layers, according to media reports.