How long have you lived here? neurontin generic Betty Diamond, a physician and immunologist at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, agrees that "there's more work to be done," before such a diagnostic test is ready for prime time. "If you're using this to determine the likelihood that someone is going to have a child with ASD," which might influence the decision to have a baby or not, she says, "you want a very, very strong degree of certainty." However, she says, "this is a very exciting approach, because if this indeed contributes to some proportion of cases of ASD then there is a way to identify risk pregnancies and also a way to think about prevention" with drugs such as antibody blockers, or to begin early interventions, such as behavioral therapy, that have been shown to improve how autistic children fare long-term.
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