One of Thousands Autism
Some occasional visitors of this blog ask why if one drug helps their case of autism, another can be ineffective. Perhaps it would be much more helpful right at the start to diagnose people with “one of thousands autism”, then people might better understand their situation, and plan their way forward. Autism is not a biological diagnosis, it is just an observational diagnosis. Some readers have suggested “sorry, we don’t know” would be the honest diagnosis. Several hundred autism genes and still counting Some of these 740 genes linked to autism are shown here:- Human Gene Module There are existing mouse models covering 192 individual genes that can cause “autism”. There are 18 known individual chemicals that can induce ‘autism” in mice Animal Model Induced You may wonder how come there is a thimerosal-induced mouse model, but it exists. Thimerosal There are dozens of rescue models, where scientists can make a mouse have “autism” and then reverse it. Animal Rescue Models Autism a...