r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Feb 08 '25

Neuroscience Specific neurons that secrete oxytocin in the brain are disrupted in a mouse model of autism, neuroscientists have found. Stimulating these neurons restored social behaviors in these mice. These findings could help to develop new ways to treat autism.

https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/research_news/rr/20250207_1/index.html
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u/Larein Feb 08 '25

You also said:

But I don't believe they understand human autism at the start of that chain.

But if there are autistic people researching this, they would have very first hand experience on autism. Yet you declare out of nowhere that they don't understand it. What do you base that?

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u/bigasssuperstar Feb 08 '25

Because this research adheres strictly the pathology-deficit model advanced by psychiatry and the behaviourism industry. Do you see something different?

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u/Larein Feb 08 '25

Why would that be wrong?