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A drug discovered more than 100 years ago may hold the key to combating autism symptoms, according to a study.
Researcher Dr Robert Naviaux of the San Diego School of Medicine gave suramin, a drug first developed in 1916, to 10 autistic boys between the ages of five and 14, and noted transformative results.
"After the single dose, it was almost like a roadblock had been released," he said. "If the future studies show that there's continued health benefits, this could be a game-changer for families with autism."
The study, which has been published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, saw five of the participants receive suramin, while the remainder were given placebos. Included in the group were four non-verbal children – two six year olds and two 14 year olds.
"The six year old and the 14 year old who received suramin said the first sentences of their lives about one week after the single suramin infusion," Naviaux told the UC San Diego Health website. "This did not happen in any of the children given the placebo."
Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/390222-autism-research-suramin-symptoms/
(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday May 31 2017, @09:24PM (5 children)
No, but the others have enough common sense to let me focus on what I do best.
Nope, the boss generates the reports from Jira, nobody in the team needs to waste their time with collating reports.
If this happens to you, then it sucks to work where you are.
Believe it or not, there are places in which managers really understand their job: they are the enablers for the actual doers, not leeches.
See where your focus on socializing leads you? If you just limit your communication to the problem at hand and explain why it breaks and when/where it breaks, everybody would benefit. No "social communication" skills involved, just stick to the engineering problem.
I guess no amount of suramin is going to help you.
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(and no, I'm not any of the AC-es above, but I can sympathize with the original AC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @09:47PM (1 child)
Gimme basic income, pruneface.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @12:13AM
sudo "take it yourself, figass".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @02:43AM (2 children)
Interesting. In the other thread you said you smoke about 20 a day. There is some evidence that many smokers are actually non-neurotypicals self-medicating with nicotine.
Do you get more or less autistic when you don't smoke? Serious question as, from memory, the nicotine was a help with ADHD which is sort of the opposite end of the spectrum.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 01 2017, @03:23AM (1 child)
I feel there's an element of truth in my case.
There's also an element of puzzlement - I tried vaping and find unsatisfying after a while - I'm not alone, I have a colleague in almost the same situation now - he's vaping as a substitute but now and then comes to pinch a real cigie from me. I reckon the other stuff the manufacturers put into the cigarettes somehow helps the delivery to the areas in need.
I'm not in the autistic spectrum, even if sometimes (in my "larval stages") it may seems so. I think I'm closer to a bipolar.
Nicotine helps in dampening the extremes: makes the depressive periods less acute, steals from the joy of intense activity and getting a lot of things done on the expense of physical/physiological needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Sunday June 04 2017, @12:04AM
There's a few possibilities. One is that cigarettes also contain harmaline, a MAOI that greatly potentiates the nicotine (especially it's addictivness). MAOIs have also been used as anti-depressants on their own (not so much anymore).
Some people find that upping the nicotine dose to compensate helps a lot. Those wimpy cigalikes they sell at the mall probably can't deliver a proper dose. You need something in the 75-150 watt range. Personally I like a 0.5 ohm 24 gauge stainless steel coil and an 18650 battery rated for 30A discharge.