Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders: research

Re:Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatr... by iwasbornin2021 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:57PM (#27575555)

The Chinese traditionally make babies sleep on their backs. You should check out their historical autism rate

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Re:Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatr... by dempsey on Sunday June 20, 2021 @10:05PM (#27575593)

Care to cite a study or data? I know sleep researches studying this issue at UCLA and elsewhere and would love to share it with them.

We were looking for natural experiments. Ideally somewhere that babies are still stomach slept. Much like Israel and peanut snacks in the study of peanut allergies, it’s hard to change a protective paradigm without a natural experiment.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/eating-peanuts-preve...

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Re:Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatr... by iwasbornin2021 on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:18AM (#27580006)

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+babies+sleep+on+their+...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/30/c...

The WaPo article is very illuminating re: how Chinese babies were raised. As it was published almost 30 years ago, those babies are now established Chinese adults. Makes you wonder how much they're shaped by how they were reared.

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Re:Mitochondria may contribute to neurological and psychiatr... by dempsey on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:38PM (#27583338)

I’m referring to data on autism rates in China. The WaPo article makes it seem highly likely that kids have developmental issues. The question really is whether autism is measured in China in any reliable way.

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