Personalized/Precision Medicine for Sound Sensitivity in Autism, Bipolar and Schizophrenia?
Stop the Noise! Conventional wisdom, even among enlightened neurologists like Manuel Casanova, is that you cannot medically treat the sensory issues that occur in neurological conditions like autism, bipolar and schizophrenia. This blog is very much driven by the peer-reviewed literature, but very often seems to comes up with alternative interpretations to what the doctors will say. Today is another of those days. I do tell people that you can very easily get things 100% back to front when developing personalized/precision medicine. The general idea was correct, but the effect was the exact opposite to what was hoped for. This is not a failure; this is a learning experience. Today we see that what works in schizophrenia is the exact opposite of what works in bipolar. I do like to include schizophrenia and bipolar in my autism posts, because there is a big overlap between them and the broad umbrella of dysfunctions found in autism. Se...