Understanding Neurodivergence

When Do Autism and Schizophrenia Begin? A Study of 1,000 Brains Points to the Months Before Birth

A University of Exeter team mapped the chemical switches on DNA in nearly 1,000 human brains, from six weeks after conception to 108 years. Most of the change happens before birth, and the genes linked to autism and schizophrenia are right in the middle of it. What that means, and what it does not.