Extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volumes from 6 to 24 months of age are associated with poorer executive function at school-age in children with and without autism

Authors

• Yichi Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Robert C McKinstry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Natasha Marrus, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• John R Pruett Jr., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• et al.

Journal

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Publication Date

1-16-2026

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

9

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s11689-025-09671-z

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Zhang, Y., Rutsohn, J., Kim, S.H. et al. Extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volumes from 6 to 24 months of age are associated with poorer executive function at school-age in children with and without autism. J Neurodevelop Disord 18, 9 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-025-09671-z This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.

Recommended Citation

Zhang, Yichi; McKinstry, Robert C; Marrus, Natasha; Pruett, John R Jr.; and et al., "Extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volumes from 6 to 24 months of age are associated with poorer executive function at school-age in children with and without autism." Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 18, 1. 9 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7360

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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