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  The Lateral Septum, in green, turns the volume  up or down in aggression Today’s post started by me checking for anything new in the research about the hormone Vasopressin and autism. I was surprised by just how much research continues to be published on the subject – no smoke without fire, perhaps. We also get another insight into how aggressive raging develops in the brain; we even have a photo. A novel therapy for Fragile-X is also thrown into the mix, due to a link to oxytocin. So, what is cooking in the research? The first thing to note is that you really do have to look at both Oxytocin and Vasopressin, because these two hormones are very closely related. We have previously looked at the autism gene NLGN3, this gene encodes the cute sounding neuroligin-3.   https://epiphanyasd.blogspot.com/search/label/neuroglin   The reason people with Fragile-X have autism is because they lack the protein FMRP ( Fragile X mental retardation protein). In healthy n...

    A few ideas remain to be fine-tuned Having started to develop my son’s polytherapy for autism back in December 2012, is there anything left to develop in 2021? As we have seen, the biggest impact from interventions is when you start them very young, but improvement is possible at any age. I was asked at the recent Synchrony autism conference what is next for the PolyPill?   and I replied that more spontaneous expressive language is my main target.   I have a good idea of what may help. ·         Calcium folinate, increased over 6 weeks to 45mg/day ·         Sulforaphane, with added Myrosinase in the form of Wasabi I was contacted by a researcher from that Synchrony conference, suggesting that Low Level LED Therapy (LLLT) was worth trying to improve the use of speech.   It does seem to benefit people with many types of brain injury.   I did write a post on LLLT using lasers,...