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2011-01-07 Science

On autism's cause, researchers just 'scratching the surface'

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Posted by gorb 2011-01-07 02:28|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 There needs to be a caution that, as with other spectrum medical conditions, there is a tendency to try and fit similar conditions into the spectrum. Just a brief search on the web shows several people asserting that by some means, autism was "cured".

But often it wasn't autism in the first place, but something else that had been misdiagnosed as autism.

Physicians and psychiatrists can't really be blamed for this, as they have no means to accurately diagnose autism in its early stages, except by a few traits that overlap into other conditions.

Even the newly discovered "abnormally high" amounts of white matter in the brain, seen in older autistics, may be shared with other conditions.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-07 09:09|| 2011-01-07 09:09|| Front Page Top

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