Possible Theories on the Causes of Autism

Autism is a term that refers to a variety ofdisorder but nothing is certain.Recent research has
neurological developmental issues, and that affectslinked chromosomes with autism, and they may be
certain areas of the brain, the ones that areguilty of something because in many other affections
responsible for the language skills, the interaction withof the brain, like the down syndrome, chromosome
others, and many more, depending on each individual.anomalies are the cause. But if you compare the
People that suffer from autism are acting differentlygenes of an autistic with the genes of a normal
from each other, and because we know so littleperson you aren't going to see any difference, so it
about the brain and the way it works it's hard tocan't be said that a certain gene or chromosome is
understand what causes this affection or what is theguilty.A large number of scientists also believe that
best method of treating it.Most of the doctors aresome children are born with some anomalies and
convinced that the causes of autism are genetic andpredispositions in their genes, and these combined
are located in the brain only, because many testswith several environmental factors cause autism to
were performed on autistic persons, and theirappear. Probably not a single gene is not normal, but
organisms are identical to the organisms of normalmore of them are slightly different and when the
persons, so everything that has to do with thisenvironmental factors appear too, a 'button' is pushed
condition is in the brain.In the beginning, when autismand the disability appears.Other theories suggest that
was first discovered in 1943 and there were verya severe emotional trauma may affect the brain so
few cases that could be studied, people thought thatmuch that the victim withdraws from society and
autism was caused by parents who raised theirother people.Until the future comes and medical
children wrong, did not show them love and treatedscience evolves to the point where the causes of
them bad, but this conception was proved to beautism are certain, we can only suppose why it
wrong soon. However, nobody discovered a certainappears. Unfortunately, because we don't know the
cause of autism until this day, so the reason whycauses we also don't know how it can be cured. For
autistic persons are different is unknown. There arenow, we can only hope, and help the autisics as
some theories about what could be causing themuch as we can.