Medical Webinar on Autism and Genetics.

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An hour and a half thing I stumbled upon. But very informative in the first half hour (all that ive gotten to so far).

Havent even gotten to the meat of the topic (what they know about genetics and autism) yet.



https://youtu.be/wRk5LF4Z3jM


The first 8 minutes alone ironed out a lot of kinks in my knowledge of how the experts slice and dice up the autism spectrum these days.

I’m not seeing a link. Can you post the link, please?

it vanished!

I can see it now. Thank you.

It's really good if one hasn't done a ton of research into Autism (& Asperger's). I'd call it repetitive in its presentation, but that's rather common in documentaries, lectures, presentations, etc nowadays. The descriptions of atypical development (delay, deviation, & dissociation) were the most interesting part for me, but the focus is very much on delays (& how global they are) & not the hyper- (early) end.

The genetics portion is bare-bones feeling, but that's because the research just isn't there yet. It's much further than it was, so the descriptions of the types of tests available & the (very few) things they've discovered genetically are newer. I think the more we learn about the genetics, the more likely the spectrum will become specifically divided into domains or such.

Afterwards, I was left with a very strong personal feeling that Asperger's needs to come back as a diagnosis. The more they went over the modern definitions versus the older classifications, the more alien I felt.