When you read about autism research in the media, you may not realise that a lot of this research is actually conducted on mice. In this video I'm going to be deconstructing the so-called "Mouse Model of Autism".

REFERENCES 📄
SciTechDaily article: https://scitechdaily.com/a-drug-that-...
Original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4138...
Types of autistic mouse behaviour: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Why studying autism in mice may be doomed to fail: https://www.spectrumnews.org/features...

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TIMESTAMPS ⌚
00:00 Intro
01:18 The Mouse Model of Autism
05:28 Scientific Validity
06:49 So-called "autistic" behaviours in mice
09:15 How did this gain legitimacy?
10:17 The recent study
14:43 Bloopers