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Eileen Nicole Simon, PhD, RN

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(11):1106.

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Evidence that oxygen insufficiency at birth may be among autism's many causes can be found in articles on the effects of experimental asphyxiation of monkeys at birth by Ranck and Windle,¹ Lucey et al,² Faro and Windle,³ and Myers,⁴ in which the primary site of injury was the midbrain auditory pathway.^1-4

Ranck and Windle¹ noted that involvement of auditory nuclei, the basal ganglia, and the thalamus was similar to the neuropathology of kernicterus but without the characteristic yellow staining caused by bilirubin. Lucey et al² injected bilirubin into newborn monkeys with and without asphyxia and found that bilirubin only stained the subcortical nuclei that were damaged by asphyxia.² Faro and Windle³ examined the brains of monkeys that were kept alive for several months or years and found that maturation of the brain did not follow a normal course.³

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