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Autism: treatments in progress

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2896

Duration

00:03:00

Production year

2011

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SD
16/9
Color
Sound

Director(s)

Daniel FIEVET

Summary

In this short film, Marcel Hibert, a researcher from the Laboratory for Therapeutic Innovation, discusses a new advance in the treatment of autism. Since a decade, a hormone was discovered: the oxytocin. With its receptor, it plays a key-role in the relationship between a new-born and his social group. This discovery could lead to the development of a drug against autism…

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