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Title: What is autism?
Post by: thedoc on 27/05/2014 13:34:26
Getting us to grips with this often misunderstood condition here’s the Naked Scientists Quick Fire Science, I’m joined by Kate Lamble..
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1000725/)

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Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 31/03/2016 12:09:00
Research suggests that clinical endocannabinoid deficiency could be implicated in autism pathophysiology.

http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273%2813%2900225-0
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 09/04/2016 12:53:18
Could vitamin D deficiency and low levels of endocannabinoid activity indicate autoimmune (GcMAF) dysregulation in autism?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996516/

Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 04/05/2016 11:39:31
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These viruses sabotage the immune system by sending out nagalase to prevent the production of the child’s GcMAF, and therefore become chronic.

https://gcmaf.se/patient-resources/autism/

Is MMR vaccines (inactivated viruses) causing chronic GcMAF (vitamin D binding protein) deficiency in autism spectrum disorder?

Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: leamangaarandia on 11/05/2016 11:10:58
can we cure autism if it was detected in an earlier stage?
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: RD on 11/05/2016 17:36:31
Quote from: tkadm30 on 04/05/2016 11:39:31
Is MMR vaccines (inactivated viruses) causing chronic GcMAF (vitamin D binding protein) deficiency in autism spectrum disorder?

#1. The hypothesis that MMR vaccination caused autism has been conclusively disproven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy).

#2. GcMAF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GcMAF#Controversies) is one of many fake treatments for autism (http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm394757.htm).

Quote from: tkadm30 on 31/03/2016 12:09:00
Research suggests that clinical endocannabinoid deficiency could be implicated in autism pathophysiology.

Yet again tkadm30 shoe-horns cannabis into a thread in this forum (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tkadm30++cannabis+site:thenakedscientists.com).
[ If you are tkadm30 the cannabis grower (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tkadm30+cannabis+site:http://www.mrnice.nl) that would explain why you constantly push dope ].
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 11/05/2016 18:34:12
Quote from: RD on 11/05/2016 17:36:31

GcMAF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GcMAF#Controversies) is one of many fake treatments for autism (http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm394757.htm).

I don't see GcMAF being listed as a fake treatments for autism on that fda.gov website.

Quote from: RD
[ If you are tkadm30 the cannabis grower (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tkadm30+cannabis+site:http://www.mrnice.nl) that would explain why you constantly push dope ].

Pushing dope? You must be kidding... The ones who push dope the most are the ones selling prescription drugs and antipsychotics. [:P]

J Clin Invest. 2008 Jan 2; 118(1): 6–14
Antipsychotics in the treatment of autism
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2171144/
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: RD on 11/05/2016 18:57:21
Quote from: tkadm30 on 11/05/2016 18:34:12
I don't see GcMAF being listed as a fake treatments for autism on that fda.gov website.

Google is your friend ...
http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/25/paper-about-widely-touted-but-unapproved-cure-for-cancer-autism-retracted/
[ no doubt a part of a conspiracy to suppress the cure for cancer & autism ].

Quote from: tkadm30 on 11/05/2016 18:34:12
Pushing dope? You must be kidding...

You've done little else other than push cannabis in this forum. (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tkadm30++cannabis+site:thenakedscientists.com)

[ If you are tkadm30 the cannabis-grower perhaps you should have declared an interest in your profile (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=41389) ].
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 11/05/2016 19:05:18
Quote from: RD on 11/05/2016 18:57:21
Quote from: tkadm30 on 11/05/2016 18:34:12
I don't see GcMAF being listed as a fake treatments for autism on that fda.gov website.

Google is your friend ...
http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/25/paper-about-widely-touted-but-unapproved-cure-for-cancer-autism-retracted/
[ no doubt a part of a conspiracy to suppress the cure for cancer & autism ].

I guess it's the same "conspiracy" that murdered Dr Bradstreet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bradstreet#Alternative_autism_therapies
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 11/05/2016 19:09:35
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Over 900 children have now trialled GcMAF around the world, and clinics are reporting a response rate of over 80% in reducing the symptoms of autism.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9857174.htm
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: evan_au on 11/05/2016 22:44:20
The causes of autism are far from clear, probably involving genetic and environmental causes, as well as greater community awareness that leads to higher levels of diagnosis (school teachers identify certain children as being "on the (autism) spectrum").

I heard of one paper that linked autism to infection during pregnancy...  yet another avenue to investigate...
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: RD on 12/05/2016 05:31:51
Quote from: tkadm30 on 11/05/2016 19:05:18
I guess it's the same "conspiracy" that murdered Dr Bradstreet...

If Big Pharma is murdering their competitors, (and staging it as suicide), why do they wait until the aforementioned quacks are facing bankruptcy and/or jail-time for their frauds ?...

Quote from: scienceblogs.com
... the day before [Bradstreet] apparently killed himself, his office was the target of a federal search warrant ...
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/07/17/gcmaf-autism-and-the-apparent-suicide-of-an-autism-quack/

If Big Pharma viewed them as competitors, and was willing to assassinate them, the logical thing would be to kill them at the earliest opportunity, rather than "fake their suicide" when the quack's career was near its natural end.

Again your conspiracy-theory does not bear any analysis : such beliefs are only promulgated by the paranoid*,  [ *drug-induced (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cannabis+paranoia), or otherwise (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=schizotypal+paranoia) ].
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: RD on 12/05/2016 05:38:34
Quote from: evan_au on 11/05/2016 22:44:20
The causes of autism are far from clear, probably involving genetic and environmental causes ...

There is a clear 4:1 gender ratio in autism (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=4:1+gender+ratio+autism+genetic+) , that is explicable via genetics alone.
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: evan_au on 14/05/2016 12:27:49
A big autism conference is taking place in Baltimore in May 2016.

For an overview: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/on-the-brink-of-breakthroughs-in-diagnosing-and-treating-autism/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20160511
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 02/06/2016 18:49:43
Endocannabinoid signaling and vitamin D binding protein are important factors in autism pathology.
Title: Re: What is autism?
Post by: smart on 03/06/2016 13:32:12
Is it reasonable to give antipsychotics medication as a autism treatment?