Table 1.

Preserved tissue and clinical and postmortem records

Group and case ID	Sex	Age (y)	Intellectual deficit	Seizures age of onset	Cause of death	PMI (h)	BW (g)	Weight loss (%)
A1	F	5	–	–	Traumatic injuries	13	1390	52
A2	M	8	–	–	Rhabdomysarcoma	22	1570	45
A3	F	11	Mild	4.5 m	Seizure-related drowning	13	1460	52
A4	M	13	Severe	2 y	Seizure-related	8	1470	39
A5	F	21	Moderate	5 y	Seizure related resp. failure	50	1108	43
A6	M	23	Severe	23 y	Seizure-related resp. failure	14	1610	60
A7	M	36	Severe	–	Cardiac arrest	24	1480	44
A8	M	52	–	–	Heart failure	11	1324	53
A9	M	60	Moderate	3 y	Pancreatic cancer	26	1210	38
Mean ± SD		25.4 ± 19.8				21.2 ± 13.6	1402 ± 164	47.3 ± 7.3
C1	F	4	–	–	Acute bronchopneumonia	17	1530	49
C2	M	14	–	–	Electrocution	20	1464	44
C3	F	15	–	–	Traumatic injuries	9	1250	49
C4	F	20	–	–	Traumatic injuries	9	1340	52
C5	M	23	–	–	Ruptured spleen	6	1520	41
C6	M	29	–	–	Traumatic injuries	13	1514	49
C7	M	32	–	–	Asphyxia	24	1364	42
C8	M	48	–	–	Heart atherosclerosis	24	1412	39
C9	M	52	–	–	Heart atherosclerosis	13	1430	48
Mean ± SD		26.3 ± 15.8				15 ± 6.6	1424 ± 94	45.9 ± 4.5

A autism, C control, PMI postmortem interval, h hours; Weight loss, decrease (%) of hemispheric brain sample weight during dehydration in ethyl alcohol; SD standard deviation