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#neurodevelopment

The latest research review, published Friday in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health, looked at 43 studies and concluded that the most rigorous ones, such as those that compare siblings, provide strong evidence that taking the drug commonly known as paracetamol outside of the U.S. does not cause autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities. It's safe to use in pregnancy, said lead author Dr. Asma Khalil. It remains the first line of treatment that we would recommend if the pregnant woman has pain or fever.

However, by using innovative methods to measure the electrical impulses of lab-grown brain tissue, Sharf and the study's authors discovered compelling evidence that the brain is already encoded with instructions for making sense of the world even before it receives any sensory input, which he said is more akin to the philosopher Immanuel Kant's idea of a priori cognition, and which Sharf calls a primordial operating system.