Studies relating autism to environment & genetics will cause insight & hysteria
A recent study of twins suggesting autism may be related to environmental factors like maternal antidepressants has the potential not only to prevent autism but to harm babies by denying mothers drugs they need during pregnancy.
The study portrays autism as both a genetic disease and a pharmacologic embryopathy and requires immediate confirmation to determine the interactions of genetics and environment in the genesis of autism and to prevent over reactions like the ones to mercury and vaccines.
The recent study of twins relating autism both to environmental factors such as antidepressants as well as to genetic factors requires immediate confirmation and clarification as it has the potential not just to prevent autism but to harm babies whose mothers are denied drugs they need during the pregnancy.
A study such as this can cause as much hysteria as insight.
Its conclusions may harms babies and their mothers and impact the necessary use of antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs during pregnancy and have the potential to create frivolous lawsuits that will impact all pharmaceutical companies as well as the patients who take their drugs.
It is critical that Big Pharma joins forces with academia to fund studies to delineate the interactions between environment and genetics in the genesis of autism in order to determine whether further restriction of drug use during pregnancy can prevent an epidemic of autism or simply create the kind of hysteria that occurred when some blamed autism on vaccines and/or mercury.
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