I'm lovin' it! Seriously, it's a really fun read. A++.
It's interesting that you mention the link between autism and vaccines in the first post (yes, I'm commenting here rather than there on purpose). I'm utterly in the camp that says it's coincidence, but one thing that every so often gives me the creeps is something I heard working in the ACP program. We have quite a lot of contact with CHB's Autism Language Program as the two programs share interns from time to time. I've filled in a couple times for Dr. Shane's interns there, and something that he and his assistants have shared with me is that children with ASD typically fall into two categories: kids that were always weird, and kids that one day woke up weird. Now, I'm not a fan of anecdotal evidence, but something that they've said is invariable about the kids who "got" ASD one day - that is not present in other ASD kids - is that when they have a fever the symptoms of autism appear to go away. The kids become totally calm and lucid and return to their "pre"-ASD
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Tomorrow's post, actually, will be related to ASD, so it's funny you mention that. As for the rest I'm not going to get going too much on it, but I will say that inflammatory states do weird things and that coupled with the idea that I've been kicking around that the Blood-Brain Barrier might not be completely in tact in ASD patients might mean there's something to that. Not that it would impact the lack of a link with vaccines (Andrew Wakefield's Wikipedia article reads like a rap sheet these days), but it might be a window for therapy, who knows.
Interesting! Considering the enormous umbrella that is ASD (the DSM IV has exactly three criteria) and that diagnosis is up to 1 in 90 kids now (1 in 110 by some sources), I think there's probably any number of things going on - number one of which is mothers who are too old to be popping out kids. Apparently, race is also a factor (or is it just SES?).
I'm sure the girls in my program will be interested in your post - quite a number are looking to specialize in ASD because it's really not being handled at all right now aside from a few shoddy attempts at things like PECS (which is almost never properly implemented anyway). And then of course there's ABA, which is the therapeutic equivalent of blood-letting. The most disturbing thing is that most of the time kids come in to our program who've been diagnosed by their PCP and then put on drugs like Risperdal or Clonidine. Sure, that's a great solution. What I have seen that works startlingly well is joint compression therapy
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I just syndicated the shit out of it (really simply)
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It's interesting that you mention the link between autism and vaccines in the first post (yes, I'm commenting here rather than there on purpose). I'm utterly in the camp that says it's coincidence, but one thing that every so often gives me the creeps is something I heard working in the ACP program. We have quite a lot of contact with CHB's Autism Language Program as the two programs share interns from time to time. I've filled in a couple times for Dr. Shane's interns there, and something that he and his assistants have shared with me is that children with ASD typically fall into two categories: kids that were always weird, and kids that one day woke up weird. Now, I'm not a fan of anecdotal evidence, but something that they've said is invariable about the kids who "got" ASD one day - that is not present in other ASD kids - is that when they have a fever the symptoms of autism appear to go away. The kids become totally calm and lucid and return to their "pre"-ASD ( ... )
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I'm sure the girls in my program will be interested in your post - quite a number are looking to specialize in ASD because it's really not being handled at all right now aside from a few shoddy attempts at things like PECS (which is almost never properly implemented anyway). And then of course there's ABA, which is the therapeutic equivalent of blood-letting. The most disturbing thing is that most of the time kids come in to our program who've been diagnosed by their PCP and then put on drugs like Risperdal or Clonidine. Sure, that's a great solution. What I have seen that works startlingly well is joint compression therapy ( ... )
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