[HN Gopher] ADHD and autism associated with in utero heavy metal...
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       ADHD and autism associated with in utero heavy metals and essential
       minerals
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-04-11 11:13 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (medicalxpress.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (medicalxpress.com)
        
       | logicslave wrote:
       | ADHD is generally just when your executive functioning doesn't
       | develop as well as the rest of your brain, and so things are
       | asymmetrical. You have less control over your actions because
       | executive functioning is impaired. This gets commonly confused
       | with highly intelligent people who cant/refuse to focus on the
       | boring and mundane. So we get this mythos, but really, the highly
       | creative intelligent get mixed up with cognitively impaired.
       | 
       | There are other types of people who for whatever reason have
       | imbalance in the regions of their brain and end up with unique
       | functioning. This is where "edge" comes from. Deformities that
       | lead to small verticals of super human capability, which comes at
       | the expense of being able to live a normal life.
        
       | wufufufu wrote:
       | Pop science with no link to actual study? I'm not convinced that
       | confounding variables have been stripped. ADHD and autism are
       | probably also positively associated with the population density
       | of medical professionals in the area.
       | 
       | Edit: link to article
       | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
        
         | whoknew1122 wrote:
         | The link to the study is waaaaay at the bottom in a gray box
         | titled 'More information'. But yeah, just another pop science
         | article.
        
         | piokoch wrote:
         | There is a link to article in Elsevier's Environment
         | International journal. Looking at its ranking it is not some
         | totally crap journal (which does not prove that this particular
         | article is correct, though).
        
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