Mog Spawn@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAutism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Concludewww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1497arrow-down15
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minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down2·2 days 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 day 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.