Autism Studies
research • hypotheses • treatments
Res ipsa loquitur
(the thing speaks for itself)
The mind of an autist. Who knew?
personal observations
Do salt cravings in children with autistic disorders reveal
low blood sodium depleting brain taurine and glutamine?
Medical Hypotheses
High androgens (male hormones) have been detected in children with ASD, and their release of arginine vasopressin from the pituitary gland suspected. What is not yet recognized is that vasopressin induces low blood sodium—hyponatremia—
most serious in the brains of children.
Does fever relieve autistic behavior by improving brain blood flow?
(letter) Neuropsychology Review 2011;21:66-67
(pdf) letter re Helt et al 2008.pdf
(letter) Alternative Medicine Review 2010;15:187
Did acetaminophen provoke the autism epidemic?
Is it only coincidence that the epidemic began about 1980, the year
the CDC warned against giving aspirin to infants and young children?
Alternative Medicine Review 2009;13:364-372.
free pdf at: http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/.fulltext/14/4/364.pdf
Low-dose naltrexone for multiple sclerosis and autism:
does its benefit reveal a common cause?
(letter) Medical Hypotheses 2006;67:671-672.
I’m an independent researcher in central Oregon. After 30 years studying multiple sclerosis, I was struck by similarities between MS and autism. After studying autism six years, I’m struck by my own autistic behavior.
Peter Good
autismstudies1@gmail.com
There are two ways of detecting something that nobody can see: one is to aim at the finest detail by getting as close as possible with the best available analyzing instruments; the other is merely to look at the things from a new angle where they show hitherto unexposed facets. The former requires money and experience; the latter presupposes neither; indeed it is actually aided by simplicity, the lack of prejudice, and the absence of those established habits of thinking which tend to come after years of work.
Hans Selye. Biological adaptations to stress. In: Discovery Processes in Modern Biology (WR Klemm, ed) Robert E. Krieger Publishing, Huntington NY, 1977.
