Guest guest Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 BTW the NYT has a good article on Autism: currently: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/health/psychology/24AUTI.html -- Heidi Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Has anybody else seen the new(ish) movie " Gifted Hands " starring Cuba Gooding? Its about a surgeon at s Hopkins, & he operates on those with autism, & other brain/neuro problems. Its a GREAT movie. Vicki From: osisposis <jeaninem660@...> Subject: [] OT: Autism Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 8:35 PM 2009 Aug;2(4):205- 19. Decreased GABAA receptors and benzodiazepine binding sites in the anterior cingulate cortex in autism. Oblak A, Gibbs TT, Blatt GJ. Boston University School of Medicine, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. aoblak@... Erratum in: Autism Res. 2009 Aug;2(4):237. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 " the autistic group had significant decreases in the mean density of GABA (A) receptors in the supragranular (46.8%) and infragranular (20.2%) layers of the ACC and in the density of benzodiazepine binding sites in the supragranular (28.9%) and infragranular (16.4%) lamina [corrected]. These findings suggest that in the autistic group this downregulation of both benzodiazepine sites and GABA(A) receptors in the ACC may be the result of increased GABA innervation and/or release disturbing the delicate excitation/inhibition balance of principal neurons as well as their output to key limbic cortical targets. Such disturbances likely underlie the core alterations in socio-emotional behaviors in autism. " does anyone know how this would affect how well benzo drugs would work? I am curious because my sick family member, NOT autistic, was prescribed benzos for a number of things like fear of flying, medical procedures, etc. and he had to take very high doses to get an effect from these drugs AND while not autistic, the doctor has ordered a number of tests, some of which he tests abnormal for, and when I google these tests I often find info about them on autism websites...including heavy metals, gluten intolerance, urine porphyrins, urine pyrolles... >http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html? >_r=3 & adxnnl=1 & adxnnlx=1257620445-pNzGOwH5beqwQgo41bSfEQ thanks sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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