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Understanding Autism: The Answer May Lie in the Gut, Not in the Head
April 2007 |
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| For a copy of this article, click here. |
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| Generation Rescue Commentary: |
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| This is the best article written yet in a "mainstream" publication on biomedical intervention for autism. The author managed to convey an understanding of the role the environment plays in autism without ever mentioning the word "vaccines" even once. Although this quote is a pretty dead giveaway of what the author meant: |
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| "Above all, there is a new emphasis on the interaction between vulnerable genes and environmental triggers, along with a growing sense that low-dose, multiple toxic infectious exposures may be a contributing factor to autism and related disorders." |
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| We commend Discover Magazine for this groundbreaking cover story - thank you! |
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| Some links to topics discussed in this article include: |
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| DAN!, also known as Defeat Autism Now! |
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| Dr. Amy Yasko's Website and Discussion Group. |
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| From Harvard University, Martha Herbert's paper from the journal Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Autism: a brain disorder, or a disorder that affects the brain? |
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| An Additional paper by Martha Herbert, Large Brains in Autism: The Challenge of Pervasive Abnormality. Dr. Herbert notes, "the awareness that the brain as well as medical conditions of children with autism may be conditioned by chronic biomedical abnormalities such as inflammation opens the possibility that meaningful biomedical interventions may be possible well past the window of maximal neuroplasticity in early childhood because the basis for assuming that all deficits can be attributed to fixed early developmental alterations in neural architecture has now been undermined." |
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| From Johns Hopkins University, Carlos Pardo's paper in the Annals of Neurology, Neuroglial Activation and Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Autism. |
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| From the University of Arkansas, Jill James' paper, Thimerosal Neurotoxicity is Associated with Glutathione Depletion: Protection with Glutathione Precursors. Published in the journal of Neurotoxicology. |
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| From Harvard University, Dr. Philippe Grandjean's paper, A Silent Pandemic: Industrial Chemicals Are Impairing the Brain Development of Children Worldwide |
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