Important! Sensory integration dysfunction and autism

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Studies have showed that over 90% of children with autism had sensory abnormalities and had sensory symptoms in multiple sensory domains.SCIA loves going back to the basics, because we believe that if a solution to a problem is complicated, most likely the solution is wrong...We all have 5 traditionally recognized senses, hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste. Senses are physiological capacities that provide inputs for perception. The senses operate through a network of sensory neurons which must be linked to each other in order to transmit signals in order to work correctly. The connection between these neurons is a synapse.Ahh! Synapses! We all know what happens to the synapses when the brain's immune system becomes activated (also known as microglial activation). The synapses are destroyed! When this happens the sensorial input (never impulses) cannot travel from one neuron to the next efficiently. If sensory neurons cannot transmit the sensory signals to other neurons efficiently then they cannot convert external stimuli from the environment into internal stimuli appropriately.Watch the following video from the minute 7:30-8:30 so you can see how the synapses are destroyed in the presence of microglial activation in the brain of deceased person.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_iTWYDTSeYThis sensory integration dysfunction is only an example of how microglial activation can lead to the symptoms in autism. Microglial Activation is also the root cause of almost every other neurological and medical symptom in autism.What we have here is a very serious medical epidemic for which nobody until this point had an explanation for it. Stop Calling It Autism! is working hard getting this information out, but we cannot do it alone. We need parents and doctors to help gather the data in form of the SCIA medical disease registry to provide evidence that many children with autism suffer from these problems. We want to use this data in a different way. We want to make it available to the world through the SCIA website, not only write a paper and throw the data away or archive it. An example is the SCIA Study Statistics page. https://stopcallingitautism.org/sciastudytracker/sciastudystats.htmlSCIA wants to launch a clinical trial for the same treatment used in to target microglial activation which we were able to cure him from severe autism. But this requires a lot of money and support and the only way to get this is by showing the data in large quantities. We have talked to the goverment, pharmaceutical companies, the academy of pediatrics and other medical researchers and all they ask for is " where is the data? " They now believe in the SCIA science more than before, but until we have large amounts of data they say nobody will believe that autism is a set of symptoms caused by a medical illness.SCIA wants to help get children with autism better and we definitely can, but only, if we get massive participation from parents in the SCIA's medical disease registry. Please don't just sit back and do nothing, help us spread the word and motivate other parents to enroll their children as well. There is no excuse now that participating in the SCIA study is expensive. To enroll your child in the study is now FREE! We have built the computer systems to handle this electronically, so we can collect the data that we have been asked for very quickly if parents respond to this call.Post this information in other autism social groups, share it with your doctors, tell your friends, just find a way to share it. That is the only way to put and end to this epidemic...Thanks, Founder and Director of Stop Calling It Autism!http://www.stopcallingitautism.org Nervous Systemhttp://www.pennmedicine.org/health_info/body_guide/reftext/html/nerv_sys_fin.html#sense " Neurons must be linked to each other in order to transmit signals. The connection between two neurons is a synapse. When a nerve impulse (electrical signal) travels across a neuron to the synapse, it causes the release of neurotransmitters. These chemicals carry the nerve signal across the synapse to another neuron. " Describing the Sensory Abnormalities of Children and Adults with Autismhttp://www.springerlink.com/content/c1t048085l75r520/ " Study 1 showed that over 90% of children with autism had sensory abnormalities and had sensory symptoms in multiple sensory domains. " How Sensory Neurons Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/nerve6.htm " Typically, a stimulus causes ionic changes in the receptor neuron's dendrites, which lead to the formation of action potentials in the receptor neurons. These action potentials travel the sensory neuron, which connects to a motor neuron (and possibly an ascending neuron) in the spinal cord. The action potential causes neurotransmitter release within the presynaptic cell. The neurotransmitter binds to the postsynaptic cell and elicits an action potential there. The action potential will travel the length of the postsynaptic cell to another synapse on the effector cell (like a muscle cell, skin, blood vessel, gland), where its neurotransmitter will cause a response in the effector cell (like a muscle contraction). Alternatively, the postsynaptic cell may be another neuron that transmits the signal to another neuron in the brain or spinal cord. " Sensory neurons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_nerve " Sensory neurons are neurons that are activated by sensory input (vision, touch, hearing, etc.), and send projections into the central nervous system that convey sensory information to the brain or spinal cord. Unlike neurons of the central nervous system, whose inputs come from other neurons, sensory neurons are activated by physical modalities such as light, sound, temperature, chemical stimulation, etc. " Sensehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense " Senses are physiological capacities of organisms that provide inputs for perception. " Five senseshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_senses