Re: schizophrenia and maternal infections

[Guest guest]

> It's not such a big stretch to think that other infectious agents

could have harmful effects on a growing fetus. But this is really

something. I wonder if there'll be warnings about avoiding the flu?

I believe that maternal-gestational rubella is/was a well-established

cause of mental retardation. My only source on that is the Washington

Post. Everyone in the US (and presumably the West) is vaccinated

against rubella now.

The popular press articles on these studies I cited by Brown and such,

state that there were comparable findings on autism. I haven't tracked

those down yet.

I also didn't mention the work by this one dude on mice. He found

behavioral abnormalities, and response to anti-psychotics, in mice

born to mothers he infected with something or other (flu?) during

gestation. This is covered in the Shoenfeld review I cited.

[Guest guest]

Oh, actually I think he just zapped em with immunogenic sorts of DNAs.

> I also didn't mention the work by this one dude on mice. He found

> behavioral abnormalities, and response to anti-psychotics, in mice

> born to mothers he infected with something or other (flu?) during

> gestation. This is covered in the Shoenfeld review I cited.

>