Is There a Link Between PTSD and Autistic Disorders – A Description Based on Steroid Hormones

Med Benedikt Gasser
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Med Benedikt Gasser: Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland, Europe

Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2018, vol. 5, issue 3, 51-53

Abstract: Some hints exist that there might be a relationship between PTSD and Autism in the way that in both entities steroid hormone homeostasis plays a central role, with mainly an involvement of androgens in Autism and with glucocorticoids in PTSD. From an (neuro) anatomical point of view for both clinical entities Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal gland structures are crucial, whereby for Autism additionally sex organs especially testes with its ingoing steroid homeostasis has relevance.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/GJIDD.2018.05.555663

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