High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism

Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by AstralStorm on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:11PM (#20587235)

You're building a theoretical treatment based on a theory you have not validated. (I'm not aware of any reasonable validation in e.g. a model organism at least.)

So, go back, and first check or devise a model. Model organism for autism is a very hard problem.

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Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by therealx on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:38PM (#20587476)

He said his comment is worthless (in a truly medical way), so I don't see the point in your comment.

Fwiw I found his comment to be interesting conjecture. I too have many dopamine related issues and until we have a better true understanding, all we can do is hypothesize and guess based on the small bits we do know.

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Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism by im3w1l on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:54PM (#20588738)

I guess this is "how it's done". But why should it be? As long as all the hypotheses he states can be directly measured in humans that should be enough.

Treating humans as black boxes isn't necessary anymore. We have very good measuring tools now. I believe we can make much faster progress if we just look inside and use logic inference.

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