It might also be applied, in different ways, to the great number of people who have various cognitive problems due to neurodevelopmental disorders or neurodegenerative diseases.

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Parental factors, such as low-quality semen, reduced ovarian egg supply, reproductive organ abnormalities and lifestyle may play a role in neurodevelopmental problems in children, researchers said.

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Except for the control group, all the subjects in the music study, performed by the Salk Institute and the Universities of Utah and Iowa and published in June, had this neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Children born between 32 and 36 weeks had more neurodevelopmental and educational problems than children born after 37 weeks, although the problems were less severe than for those born at 32 weeks or earlier.

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Now five years in to this "nonburdensome" process, our work group has spent nearly 2, 500 person-hours in meetings and another 3, 500 hours on teleconferences discussing refinements to the diagnostic criteria for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Particularly, when there are no clear neurodevelopmental factors mandatory required for a diagnosis later in life, even with the new DSM5 diagnostic criteria, other than traits than might put one on a broader autism phenotype earlier in life.

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