Eating healthily during pregnancy could reduce the incidence of ADHD and autism!

Alimentation femme enceinte

In this work (1), the authors examined the possible relationships between metabolism and food consumed during pregnancy, and in particular during the 24th week (approximately 6 months of gestation), and the incidence of neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism and ADHD. The study examined the development of children at the age of 10 in a cohort … Read more

It’s always and again the pollution and pesticides, and the diseases!

In an interview conducted by journalist Anne Guion, I answered a few questions, emphasising the importance of motherhood, which is the most fragile period with regard to pollution in general and pesticides in particular (see also the french article below). Before Trump’s arrival, exceptional studies had shown that the incidence of autism and brain diseases … Read more

Chapoutot’s Les Irresponsables: a must-read if you want to understand the dangers we face!

Chapoulot

We live in a dangerous world, with Putin wanting to re-establish the Russian Empire in Europe, Trump wanting anything and everything, and the extreme right seemingly forgetting Nazism and the world wars. Not to mention the fashionable fake news that prohibits any debate based on facts, not fantasies. So we have to prepare ourselves for … Read more

Despite intense search, the genetic interpretationfor most forms of ASD remains questionable.For instance, a large-scaleGWAS meta-analysis

I am pleased to announce the publication, with my friend Etienne Danchin, of an article that criticizes the genetic view of autism and shows why we cannot ignore the crucial role of the environment during pregnancy. In our opinion, the dominance of the genetic view of autism for decades is not only based on questionable … Read more

Conference “Predicting and Treating Autism Using the Concept of Neuroarchaeology”

As part of an exceptional conference organized by the Rotary Club la Ciotat Ceyreste, I will have the honor of presenting my work on autism and prenatal brain dysfunctions. Entitled “Predicting and treating autism through the concept of neuroarchaeology”, this conference will highlight fundamental discoveries that could transform the understanding and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders. … Read more

Please stop challenging the genocide in Gaza

Genocide Gaza

I can’t understand how anyone could dare to question the genocide in Gaza! It’s understandable that Jews, like me, have sensitivities. But the truth is the truth and there is no point in hiding it. It is genocide, with all the requisite criteria. We start with Guernica: more bombs were dropped on potential populations than … Read more

The Pelargos project: Using AI to obtain an early prognosis of autism

Pelargos

One of the aims of both political and medical authorities is to diagnose neurodevelopmental syndromes such as autism as early as possible. Behavioural treatments are all the more effective if they start early, during the pivotal period of plasticity and learning in the first 2-3 years of life. In France, as in most other European … Read more

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

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

Le Blog de Ben-Ari
B&A Biomedical
B&A Oncomedical
Neurochlore
Portail Ben-Ari