Vitamin D and Autism

Vitamin D has been considered recently as a research interest in the area of psychiatry. The brain contains vitamin D receptors, which may regulate mood and depressive disorders during the insufficiency of vitamin D. Animal studies have confirmed that severe vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy dysregulates many proteins that are highly critical for brain development and leads to rat pups with pathological changes such as increased brain size and enlarged ventricles, abnormalities similar to th