What if AI could help develop a treatment for autism?

AI recherche

Despite considerable efforts and substantial investment, there are still no effective treatments for many neurological and psychiatric diseases, including autism and other developmental syndromes. There are 2 main reasons for this I) These syndromes are born in utero, which modifies the pathogenesis of the syndrome. As I have already explained, the triggering element will modify … Read more

The IBEN endowment fund is dissolved

Iben fin

Founded 5 years ago by the Neurochlore start-up, the non-profit IBEN fund aimed to help parents of autistic children and autism support associations. Over the 5 years of its existence, based exclusively on donations from Neurochlore, we have been able to distribute over €150K to various associations across the country, including Abashoshin , Asperanza (Brest) … Read more

When the genocide in Gaza was announced by Netanyahu with admirable cynicism and gall

Genocide

We have used and abused all the qualifiers, adjectives, adverbs and verbs to describe, in part only, this genocide, programmed and in progress. The destruction of everything that sustains life: hospitals, schools, universities, plantations, industry, religious and administrative buildings (including land registries, taxes, police), cemeteries. In short, a country returning to the Stone Age. What … Read more

End of Twitter/X posts

End Twitter

Given the positions of Mr Elon Musk, which aim to destroy democracies and replace them with dictatorships managed by his clones, I have decided, as I hope more and more people and organizations have, to stop publishing my content on X, which I am leaving without regret and am going to look elsewhere for communication … Read more

To celebrate 2025: Save Wikipedia from Belphegor-Musk!

Wikipedia

In Christian demonology, Beelphegor is the demon who seduces his victims by inspiring them with ingenious discoveries and inventions designed to enrich them.  He comes from the Hebrew ( בעל פעור-he possesses “evil”) and operated at the time of the Jews’ exit from Egypt by seducing the Hebrews away from their God through the intermediary … Read more

2024: a pivotal year?

2024: a pivotal year?

Several important events in 2024 attest to the general decline of democracy. There were the 2 wars in Ukraine and Israel, generated by a dictatorship and a democracy in the process of ceasing to be one. Admittedly, these are not the only wars – we forget Sudan and Burma, for example, because they seem so … Read more

GAZA and Israel: we can’t say we didn’t know!

GAZA et Israël : nous ne pourrons pas dire que nous ne savions pas !

As expected, in this age of fast-moving news and images created everywhere, the truth is coming out even in Israel. Despite the efforts of Netanyahu’s far-right government, videos of the situation in Gaza and the massacres perpetrated by the Israeli army have finally appeared on local TV and in the leading newspaper Haaretz, as well … Read more

Pollution and diseases, particularly cancer: the facts are stubborn but politicians are looking elsewhere!

Pollution et maladies notamment cancer : les faits sont têtus mais les politiques regardent ailleurs !

In an exhaustive study (1), the authors show a continued increase in the incidence of cancers among young people. By studying the frequency of cancers since 1920 in the US, we observe a continuous increase in cancers, X3 for pancreatic cancers, kidney cancers, etc. Among young people, 9 cancers are more common among young people: … Read more

Announcement BIO Europe 2024 : A dual approach to treat autism and brain tumors

Autism Brain tumors Bio Europe 2024

Prof. Yehezkel Ben-Ari will participate in BIO Europe meeting in Stockholm early November to develop partnerships with Pharma’s & investors to treat autism and brain tumors.The Co-transporter NKCC1 that regulates GABAergic inhibition and cell volume is overactive in many brain disorders including autism, fragile X and Rett syndrome, brain trauma, epilepsies, brain traumas cerebro-vascular infarcts, … Read more

Early Detection & Treatment of Autism & Questioning the Direction of Research : a podcast

Podcast autim From the SPectrum

The spectrum link is a large communication network involved in describing and reporting novel tools to understand and treat autism spectrum Disorders (ASD). Their correspondent has asked me to give a teamviews lecture on my observations and discovery on novel approaches and treatments of autism. I have taken this opportunity to describe several issues that … Read more

Yeshayahou Leibowitz: a prophet before his time

Yeshayahou Leibowitz: un prophète avant l'heure

Talmudist, religious Jew, Doctor of Chemistry, biochemist, doctor of neurology, historian of science, philosopher was one of the most significant minds of Israeli thought. Editor-in-chief of the Hebrew encyclopedia, he was also the winner of the Israel Grand Prize. In the sixties, I had the opportunity to follow the courses of this great chemist at … Read more

From breastfeeding to bone formation: a great story with the discovery of a new hormone!

De l'allaitement à la formation d’os : une belle histoire avec la découverte d'une nouvelle hormone !

The starting point for this adventure is the well-established observation that Calcium requirements for breastfeeding generate a loss of bone formation, estimated at 10% in women and 30% in female rodents. Normally, nature is well done, estrogens compensate for this by slowing down bone resorption – remember that 3 types of bone cells contribute to … Read more

Bumetanide in the treatment of autism: it also works in Egypt!

La bumétanide dans le traitement de l'autisme : cela marche aussi en Egypte!

It will soon be 10 years that I have been offering this treatment for children with autism spectrum disorders with my friend Eric Lemonnier. Including our 2 successful inaugural phase 2 clinical trials, 7 other trials have been carried out around the world with, according to a meta-analysis, more than 1036 children successfully treated (Xiao … Read more

Global warming: stop the thermometer!

Réchauffement climatique : sus au thermomètre !

How do we calm conflicts with farmers: quick, we change the usage indicator! Even an elementary school student understands the subtlety. We measure the quantities of substances used on a field without considering the toxicity of each product. Thus, if a farmer uses X grams of a product 100 times more toxic than another. As … Read more

A collision between The Hague and Jerusalem: When the occupation of territories is condemned in The Hague and validated in Jerusalem

Un télescopage La Haye -Jérusalem : Quand l'occupation de territoires est condamnée à La Haye et validée à Jérusalem

You don’t have to be a historian to know that Israel has occupied a territory since 1967 and is doing what is necessary to empty it of its Palestinian occupants, moreover in the continuity of the decisions of all the governments that have succeeded one another – the exception for a brief period of Itzhak … Read more

A combination of 2 generics to treat brain tumors!

Une combinaison de 2 génériques pour traiter les tumeurs cérébrales !

The discoveries follow complicated paths and appear a posteriori to be self-evident. We have been working for years on a co-transporter (NKCC1) which plays a major role in maintaining ionic balances in almost all cells. Bumetanide has shown promise in treating a number of brain diseases, including autism (see my blog ). I put forward … Read more

The beauty and resilience of Nature

La beauté et la résilience de la Nature

We have a lot to learn from nature! life is a collective work with networks of interdependent species, genes and cellular assembly. Work in the disciplines of biology and evolution teaches us how life is a construction conditioned by the balance between these functions. A striking example is provided by this publication showing how a … Read more

There is still a little room for hope

Il reste un peu de place à l'espoir

As a citizen and scientist, it seems obvious to me that the coming to power of the far right will leave an indelible mark on living together. We should not have any illusions. Macron’s regime has failed, behaving like a monarch in a republic by having prepared the ground for this earthquake. We will have … Read more

Preto’s paradox or the greater resistance of large animals to cancer

Le paradoxe de Preto ou la plus grande résistance des grands animaux au cancer

In humans or pets, large size is associated with an increased likelihood of cancer. The general idea is therefore that cancer results from a large number of cell divisions associated with genetic mutations which will reduce/break down the protective mechanisms which prevent anarchic division and the formation of tumors. However, an English statistician had shown … Read more

When an amateur is right and the great Jussieu and Réumur are wrong: is coral an animal or a plant?

Quand un amateur a raison et les grands Jussieu, Réumur ont tort: le corail est-il un animal ou une plante?

Coral has always been considered a plant. Logically it looks like a tree with roots. The ancients Aristotle, or Pliny the elder had classified it like a plant. In 1726, a coral-loving doctor, living in Gadeloupe- Jean-André Peyssonnel submitted an iconoclastic article suggesting that it is an animal. The academy refused its publication and Réaumur, … Read more

Découvrez tous les sites de Yehezkel Ben-Ari/Discover all Yehezkel Ben-Ari websites

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