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Will Anavex for “Autisms” be worth the wait and the price, compared to Russian OTC Afobazole?

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US-Russia cooperation has long been possible in Space, but not so often in Medicine.  NASA reportedly pays Russia $85 million per astronaut to go the International Space Station (ISS).   The US Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, leaving a Russian Soyuz rocket the only way to the ISS. This post comes ahead of the dietary autism post, awaited by Tanya.  It really is just a brief follow-on from the previous post. I have only just come across Anavex, which does add weight to the first post on sigma-1R.                                                                                                                 Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent in the US to develop a safe sigma-1R ago...

Education and Autism

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This blog mainly concerns personalized medicine, which is a therapy targeted to a specific person, or sub-group.   Personalized medicine can include drugs, OTC supplements, diets and, importantly, non-drug medical therapies like vagal nerve stimulation.   Some non-drug medical therapies were covered in previous posts and others will be covered in future posts. The other part of the bigger puzzle can be called personalized education; anything from ABA to music therapy to what you do at school. Eleven years ago, when starting with our first ABA consultant, just about his first question was “are you following any special diets or biomedical therapies”. He was clearly against such therapies, seeing them as a big distraction from the all-important ABA and Verbal Behavior (VB).   He did indeed have a point, you do have to focus your attention on multiple tasks and avoid being obsessed with vaccines, gluten or candida, as some people appear to be. ABA does have its limits, as ou...