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Autism: treatments in progress
Series title
Thinking Differently the ChemistryReference
2896
Duration
00:03:00
Production year
2011
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16/9
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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…