Mog Spawn@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAutism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Concludewww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up1509arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1503arrow-down1external-linkAutism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Concludewww.wired.comMog Spawn@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square60linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down2·1 month agoLooking back on medicine’s understanding of mental conditions, where things got lumped into ridiculous categories like “idiocy,” and then treated with lobotomies, it’s extremely easy to imagine that we are far from understanding it all.
minus-squareTexas_Hangover@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·1 month agoIdiocy is still a huge problem though.
Looking back on medicine’s understanding of mental conditions, where things got lumped into ridiculous categories like “idiocy,” and then treated with lobotomies, it’s extremely easy to imagine that we are far from understanding it all.
Idiocy is still a huge problem though.