LH and the hypothalamus

Post Reply New Topic

I was recently diagnosed with aspergers, and have been reading non stop . . .
some of my reading suggests that dysfunction in the hypothalamus may be causal in autistic symptoms. This is the same part of the brain that signals the pituitary gland to produce reproductive hormones.

Are there and studies involving mother's with autism or infertility in asperger women?
- here I'm not talking about relationships but medical type fertility problems.

not infertile per se, but i had 4 miscarriages (that i know of) due to my ovaries not poprerly producing enough estrogen to support the embryos after fertilization. this was around the 4 to 6 week gestational mark.

2 of the miscarriages were incomplete and i had to have procedures to complete the evacuation. it was really depressing, like my body couldn't even do the miscarriage properly. abnormal hormone levels can cause this as well.

i did have one successful birth before the miscarriages however, so i could not be actually infertile. but i definitely had hormonal difficulties.

have been TTC for 2 years, If aspergers indicates abnormal function of the hypothalamus (which actually explains alot - right temporal lobe siezures, hyper sensitive hearing, hypo sensitive smell, difficulty with auditory filtering - all lead back to the hypothalamus) I think . . . my doctor is away untill october so I must wait to conferm my theory, however, the people here seem generally more informed than the doctors I have spoken with interm.

the hypothalamus is like a central comunication point within the brian and plays a significant role in transmiting the messages interpreted by the various parts of the brain, it communicates significantly with the right temporal lobe and the pituitary gland. Sending the signals that lead to the release of hormones and the interprtation of various stimulous.

Abnormal physiology vs abnormal function in the hypothalamus has not been determined (regarding link to autism).

I did show abnormal Right Temporal Lobe activity on a CAT scan when seizure disorder was confermed.

the link to the hypothalamus in autism does explain so much more than just my siezures - hense the various auditory and olfactory issues & RTL siezures (all these things are the result of signals from the hypothalamus interpreted in the RTL)

I don`t know if they are able to take small eneugh detailed images of the Hypothalamus yet to determin if it is a matter of function or structure contributing to autism (if it doesn`t work right vs. didn`t grow right). The role of the hypothalamus in fertility is well understood. The role of an abnormal (autistic) hypothalamus in the production of reproductive hormones may not have been studied yet - but the correlation seems pretty apparent that if you have a hypothalamus that doesn`t work right that you may see problems in any of the areas affected by the hypothalamus - presumably this could include fertility.

Not a neurology nerd so if I am wrong about any of this more info please!

jneurosci. org / cgi / content / short / 26 / 26 / 6893

sorry, because I am new I cannot post URL`s properly so if you want to use the link in my previous post remove the spaces.

I couldn't tell you about my hypothalamus. Never had to have it seen to, lol. I do have irregular periods and often go long stretches without having any, which could well be endocrine (leading back to hypothalamus).