tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post5948044886109868277..comments2024-03-14T18:26:18.208-07:00Comments on autism's gadfly: autism reversal? Interesting science from Switzerlandjonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-26012161391811375292012-09-30T19:01:19.164-07:002012-09-30T19:01:19.164-07:00"Hemophilia and pattern baldness are examples..."Hemophilia and pattern baldness are examples of x-linked genetic conditions that are probably nearly non-existent in females."<br /><br />It's even easier to understand if you know *how* those sex-linked traits appear and what it takes for a girl to be born with one: http://www.thereforyou.com/understanding-hemophilia/hemophilia-genetics/ (scroll down for the diagrams!)<br /><br />Now that it's possible for boys born with hemophilia to live to adulthood (instead of always bleeding to death in childhood) and become fathers, it's possible for a woman carrying the hemophilia gene on at least one of her X chromosomes and a hemophiliac man with the hemophilia gene on his only X chromosome to have a daughter with hemophilia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-70056754960468423372012-09-22T20:14:56.730-07:002012-09-22T20:14:56.730-07:00The history of trying to "fix" brains wi...The history of trying to "fix" brains with drugs and other goodies isn't very encouraging. For one classic example, see the book "Awakenings" by Oliver Sacks. The drug solution looked wonderful...at first...but for most of the patients the longer term outcomes were fairly disastrous. <br /><br />I have a gloomy feeling that for some of the reasons outlined in your blog article, this sort of manipulation won't work out well in the real world. Minorityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12834476072596898758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-48641774928863665572012-09-20T17:13:25.340-07:002012-09-20T17:13:25.340-07:00@ redtape: I'm not sure about the attention s...@ redtape: I'm not sure about the attention shifting problems, but when I first met Eric Courchesne back in 1989, I asked him why some autistics have no motor problems in spite his cerebellar findings. He explained to me that developmental lesions were different than adult lesions and if the damage occurred early enough the autistic would not have motor impairments. For example, though I have a bad handwriting impairment I can type very fast. So, even if I have a cerebellar impairment, may not have affected some of my motor areas that it would normally affect had it occurred let's say as a stroke in an adult patient. jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-12270672690780945602012-09-20T17:00:46.554-07:002012-09-20T17:00:46.554-07:00I think it was Eric Courchesne who found cerebella...I think it was Eric Courchesne who found cerebellar problems in autism. This was explained in the book "Shadow Syndromes" by John Ratey and Catherine Johnson in the autism chapter. Specifically, it is hypothesized that the cerebellar problems are responsible for the problems with motor coordination and problems with shifting attention in autism.redtape0651http://www.scivee.tv/user/9658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-5568833195211180532012-09-20T07:51:53.081-07:002012-09-20T07:51:53.081-07:00Ah, the mice (again).
Well, if you're ever tr...Ah, the mice (again).<br /><br />Well, if you're ever troubled by an autistic mouse with an unlikely biography, major drug habit and an Elf fixation, help will soon surely be at hand.<br /><br />Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525104555859213125noreply@blogger.com