Abstract:Prenatal exposure to maternal immune activation (MIA) is a risk factor for a variety of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. The timing of MIA-exposure has been shown to affect adolescent and adult offspring neurodevelopment, however, less is known about these effects in the neonatal period. To better understand the impact of MIA-exposure on neonatal brain development, we first assess neonate communicative abilities with the ultrasonic vocalization task, followed by high-resolution ex vivo magnetic re… Show more
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