Posted on 02/15/2023 11:54:15 AM PST by bitt
Scientists are reporting a breakthrough discovery: A $3-per-pill epilepsy drug may be used to “switch off” autism symptoms in mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in Molecular Psychiatry journal.
Autism spectrum disorder is a complex developmental condition that impacts how an estimated 5.4 million (2.2% of) adults — and one in 44 children — in the United States perceives and socializes with others. It is often accompanied by abnormalities such as epilepsy or hyperactivity, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
A team of experts at Germany’s Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research found that the medication lamotrigine — an anti-seizure drug first approved for use in the US in 1994 — was able to curb behavioral and social problems linked to the disorder.
Now, their findings are being hyped as the closest thing yet to a potential cure for humans.
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Wow! That’s Yuge if it works in people!
The key words: “in mice”.
Just emailed this to my daughter.
My grandson is autistic..................
Lamictal has been widely used in the US for seizure disorder and often in people with autism, who are subject to seizures. To my knowledge at least the last ten years. Perhaps the German researchers have clarified how it acts, which is always good to know, but as a treatment, it is already out there.
How do they induce autism into the mice?
I think it helps with the symptoms, not the autism
uh oh... it works in horses too, so watch out.
Not everyone who has autism will want this, even if it helps.
There are plenty of parents out there who will resistance for their children, even if it helps.
That's easy. Childhood vaccinations.
I'm just kidding.
It is a personal choice for any adult and for any parent for their kid-and it has only been tested on mice-I hope it is good as it sounds and proves to be so in human tests as well. But one size does not fit all-many parents do not agree to certain drugs for their kids-”even if it helps” is not why, either-but because there will always be kids-and adults-who have dangerous and/or adverse reactions to drugs, vaccines and other substances that don’t affect others that way-I have adverse reactions to most drugs and vaccines, so I live drug free and have since childhood-there are many adults and kids like me out there...
Big pharma will never get behind a cure with that kind of profit margin. The FDA might not even approve it.
Is this an off-label use?
You need a chromosome microarray analysis to see if it could work.
Autism is so complicated you need to evaluate the genetic cause first.
Interesting as I am in the spectrum. Thank you for posting this!
Scientists ‘switch off’ autism symptoms using $3 epilepsy drug according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the Molecular Psychiatry journal.
02/14/2023 9:20:32 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 37 replies
New York Post ^ | 02/14/2023 | Adriana Diaz
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4131148/posts
“It is often accompanied by abnormalities such as epilepsy...”
If it is often accompanied by epilepsy, and this drug has been approved for treating epilepsy since 1994, then it stands to reason that likely many autistic people have already taken it, and we probably would have already heard about it if it was really a “miracle cure” in humans.
Isn’t that drug a mood stabilizer for people with Bipolar, or related conditions?
Give them vaccinations
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