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Content of the Lesson: There's a lot we don't understand about autism spectrum disorder, but this week scientists announced that they may have found a link between the disorder and elevated hormone levels. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/pr2009131 https://www.pnas.org/content/110/13/5258.short http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0454-9 https://jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1866-1955-4-25 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661302019046 https://theconversation.com/extreme-male-brain-theory-of-autism-confirmed-in-large-new-study-and-no-it-doesnt-mean-autistic-people-lack-empathy-or-are-more-male-106800 https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2005-11115-001 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902216300349?via%3Dihub https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201448 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcpp.12602 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/estriol https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00010.2007 https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/149/12/6433/2455502 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12662130 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00037.x https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201448 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00787-011-0220-2 https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/999a0845-73da-4dc6-8183-60444110fca5/PubMedCentral/999a0845-73da-4dc6-8183-60444110fca5.pdf https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2019-07/uoc-hlo072619.php IMAGES https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estradiol_cypionate_molecule_ball.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Default_mode_network-WRNMMC.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estradiol


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