Carolyn Stout
CHD2220
Article Review and Reflection
Careaga, M., Murai, T., & Bauman, M. D. (2017). Maternal Immune Activation and
Autism Spectrum Disorder: From Rodents to Nonhuman and Human Primates.
Biological Psychiatry,81(5), 391-401. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.10.020
Topic and Rationale
My vast interest in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has accumulated over the
years as I have watched, and continue to be involved with my younger brother Jacob’s
journey through life. He was diagnosed with Autism when he was two years old, and
went to several therapists for many years ranging from Speech, Occupational, even
Aquatic therapy; that I was able to be a part of with him. There was even a time when
things got so out of hand that he had to be medicated just to attend school, after being
kicked out of one. During the time that Jacob was medicated he lost his personality, and
