European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Childhood autism is one of the topical health problems in the world, which is determined not
so much by the frequency of childhood autism (СHA) in the child population - from 4 to 26
per 10,000 children [3, 8, 15], but by the social significance and insufficient knowledge of the
etiology and pathogenesis this disease [2, 9, 10]. Today, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are
widely regarded as neurodevelopmental disorders implying a sharply disharmonious
development of the brain and the formation of neural connections [6, 13]. Despite the increase
in the incidence of these types of disorders, the awareness of the public and specialists about
the problem is extremely low [5, 11].