autism

This is the latest work of Dr Naviaux and colleagues on cell-danger response, on mice. Metabolic and behavioral features of acute hyperpurinergia and the maternal immune activation mouse model of autism spectrum disorder Abstract Since 2012, studies in mice, rats, and humans have suggested...

In a new blog series, we will investigate how illnesses were once thought to result from stress, psychological disturbance, or deviant personality features. From the cancer-prone personality to the theory of ‘refrigerator mothers’, medicine appears to suffer from a recurrent tendency to...

Written, by Dr. Janet Dafoe, a report on Dr. Davis' recent talks, and the positive reception from scientists at Columbia, Princeton, and an autism conference. The first paragraph states: "Ron Davis spent the last week on the East Coast giving talks and talking individually to scientists and...

Preliminary but interesting. Autism has been researched far more than ME and somehow this had been missed entirely. I would really like to see research done on post-mortem ME brains and spinal cords. This is the reason the researchers named this disease and there doesn't seem to have been any...

https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdfExtended/S0896-6273(19)30733-0 Used cyclophosphamide to treat autism symptoms in mice by reducing brain inflammation.

The Guardian: 'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/19/church-group-to-hold-washington-event-despite-fda-warnings-against-miracle-cure

Hello I see scatterings of conversations around this topic here but couldn't find a single thread which dealt with this overall assertion. That ME is late onset ASD and that PEM and autistic overload may be related. Naviaux seems to be the touch point, but I am asking regarding the overall...

https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2104238

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-study-links-autism-to-general-anesthesia-in-c-sections/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190409093725.htm

Not a recommendation. http://www.censsas.co.uk/ This FM charity has 13k followers, which explains why this central sensitisation rubbish is spreading if they are willing to share it.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17529644.robert-buckland-mp-welcomes-move-to-ban-cease-therapy-adverts-claiming-to-cure-autism/

https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l962?fbclid=IwAR3fqXGMTWXzJUb6oBDXmfVlpfSKBEPDJH2n2tBu7PaSzQMb-VUJSJrmhlc Conclusion Findings suggest that an offspring’s risk of autism spectrum disorder increases following prenatal exposure to ambient pesticides within 2000 m of their mother’s residence...

Moderator note: new thread started from post in this existing thread. https://www.s4me.info/threads/plunging-grant-application-rates-test-nih’s-commitment-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-cfs.8696/page-5#post-154200 Wow. I can relate to so much of this. My existence used to be synthesising...

Mental health issues? Autism? Or really an infection causing changes to the brain? Interesting article from BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46989099 “A mother is calling for greater awareness of a little-known condition she believes changed her easy-going son...

There was some research into EV in ME/CFS and there seems to be ongoing research into this so I thought this may be interesting: https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-018-1275-5#Abstract

Only posting as the abstract mentions ME right at the end. Paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X18311654?via=ihub

I wasn't aware this sort of therapy existed for autism but am glad they are outlawing it. Now we need to outlaw CBT/GET for M.E

Paywalled at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12451

https://theconversation.com/frances-autism-problem-and-its-roots-in-psychoanalysis-94210