{"id":26353,"date":"2026-04-17T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/04\/17\/scientists-reveal-why-a-common-drug-causes-birth-defects-and-autism\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:53:41","slug":"scientists-reveal-why-a-common-drug-causes-birth-defects-and-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/04\/17\/scientists-reveal-why-a-common-drug-causes-birth-defects-and-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reveal Why a Common Drug Causes Birth Defects and Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-reveal-why-a-common-drug-causes-birth-defects-and-autism\/\" title=\"Scientists Reveal Why a Common Drug Causes Birth Defects and Autism\"><\/a>Researchers investigating a widely used medication have uncovered an unexpected cellular process that may interfere with early brain development. A medication widely used to control epilepsy, migraines, and bipolar disorder has long carried a serious warning for pregnant patients. Valproic acid is known to increase the risk of birth defects, but scientists have struggled to [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers investigating a widely used medication have uncovered an unexpected cellular process that may interfere with early brain development. A medication widely used to control epilepsy, migraines, and bipolar disorder has long carried a serious warning for pregnant patients. Valproic acid is known to increase the risk of birth defects, but scientists have struggled to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/04\/17\/scientists-reveal-why-a-common-drug-causes-birth-defects-and-autism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientists Reveal Why a Common Drug Causes Birth Defects and Autism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}