PARIS: Autism in childhood may be linked to higher levels of steroid hormones in the womb during early foetal development, researchers said today. These hormones, which play a key phase in brain development at three to four months of pregnancy, may also explain why the condition is far more common among males than females, they said. But it was too early to say whether higher hormone levels were a cause of autism, the team wrote, and cautioned against hormone screening or treatment based on their...
↧