Showing posts with label hormones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hormones. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Bizarre Things Purported to Cause Autism: Hormonal Contraceptives

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: An article published last winter in Medical Hypotheses suggests that long-term use of hormonal contraceptives might rais...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Testosterone and Estrogen Have Opposite Effects on Expression of a Gene Thought to be Underexpressed in Autism

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Kev at Left Brain/Right Brain linked to this press release describing a new study published last week in PLoS ONE , that builds on several...
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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Gender on the Brain: Cordelia Fine Exposes "Neurosexism"

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I was given Cordelia Fine's new book, Delusions of Gender , as a Christmas present, and I just finished reading it a couple days ago*....
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Fetal Testosterone and Autistic Traits - Part V(a): More About Visuospatial Abilities

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(An addendum to my earlier post on this topic ) Looking back at this article (full text here ), I notice something I didn't write about...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Fetal Testosterone and Autistic Traits - Part V: Visuospatial Abilities

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Researchers looking into the separate questions, "How do male and female minds differ?" and "How do autis...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Fetal Testosterone and Autistic Traits - Part IV: Verbal Abilities

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Apart from eye contact and looking behavior , one of the earliest signs that a child might be autistic is a delay in the acquisition of spee...