Testosterone Regulation and Autism Ranking:

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Testosterone regulation is sometimes used to treat medical conditions such as advanced prostate cancer, precocious puberty, endometriosis, or anaemia caused by uterine fibroids.*

However some researchers (such as Geier and Geier, 2006) have suggested that testosterone regulation can also be used to treat the core features of autism and challenging behaviours (such as hyperactivity/impulsivity, aggression, self injury, severe sexual behaviours, and irritability). 

*Notes: anaemia (a lower than normal number of red blood cells); precocious puberty (condition causing children to enter puberty too soon, resulting in faster than normal bone growth and development of sexual characteristics); endometriosis (condition in which the type of tissue that lines the womb grows in other areas of the body and causes pain, heavy or irregular periods); uterine fibroids (noncancerous growths in the womb).

Updated

16 Jun 2022

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01 Sep 2017

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