Comments | polaris93: UCSD study may suggest autism's cellular basis

polaris93

UCSD study may suggest autism's cellular basis | SignOnSanDiego.com

Nov 11, 2011 20:33

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/nov/08/ucsd-autism-study-finds-abnormal-prenatal-brain-gr/

So much for the Refrigerator Mother theory of the genesis of autism. And good riddance.

neurology, development, autism, environmental factors, psychology, genetics

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sekhmetsat November 12 2011, 16:33:45 UTC

PLoS had an article on article on too much brain growth being responsible for autism a few years ago.... Though theirs was estimating the growth later....

polaris93 November 12 2011, 16:41:34 UTC

What's nice about this, now, is that it hit the mainstrem media, so that the general public can learn about it. Women can take that information to doctors and psychotherapists to show they couldn't possibly have caused it. Any doctor, psychitrist, psychologist, or psychotherapist who insists that "refrigerator mothers" are responsible for the condition are obviously ignorant, way behind the times, and not worth seeing for anything.