Guest guest Posted April 2, 2002 Report Share Posted April 2, 2002 The Gut – Brain – Herpies - Autism (?) Connection " Anterior insular cortex: linking intestinal pathology and brain function in autism-spectrum subgroups. " ds=11918432 & dopt=Abstract <- - address ends here. Binstock T. Institute for Molecular Introspections, Estes Park, Colorado 80517, USA. aspergerian@... Autism includes deficits in communications skills and is associated with intestinal pathology. Numerous parents and some physicians report that an autistic child's attention and language improve in response to treatments which eliminate certain dietary antigens and/or which improve intestinal health. For at least some autism-spectrum children, the link between intestinal pathology, attention, and language may derive from shared neuroanatomic pathways within the anterior insular cortex (aIC); from a neurotrophic virus such as herpes simplex (HSV) migrating within afferents to the insular cortex; and/or from synaptic exhaustion in the aIC as induced by chronically inappropriate neuronal activity in the enteric nervous system and/or its vagal efferents. PMID: 11918432 [PubMed - in process] * * * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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