Autism and motherhood

Bruining and colleagues reported, in a 3-month mono-centric trial in 92 verbal ASD children (7-15 years old) without severe mental disability, that bumetanide did not significantly attenuate the severity of autism. This trial is at odds with 5 earlier trials from 3 independent groups who reported significant ameliorations. Astonishingly, the same group reported earlier that … Read more

We are grateful to this group to have confirmed our earlier results published in 2012 and 2017 using exactly similar protocol and evaluation. This is the 3rd paper validating our approach that is now the basis for an FDA/EMA approved large worldwide phase 3 trials conducted with Servier. The current publication also provides some support … Read more

Scientists have identified a link between exposure to high levels of oestrogen sex hormones in the womb and the likelihood of developing autism. This study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, support the idea that increased prenatal sex steroid hormones are one of the potential causes of autism. It follows on from a first study … Read more

Bumetanide for autism: more eye contact, less amygdala activation Nouchine Hadjikhani (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Etats-Unis et Université de Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Suède), Eric Lemonnier (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Limoges, France) et Yehezkel Ben-Ari (Neurochlore, Marseille, France) One of the permanent features of autistic patients is the fear of looking at the … Read more

The birth process took millions of years to be developed. It must allow 4 major reactions: a passage from an immunologically protected environment to the external environment, the acquisition of microbes in its digestive system, the transition from a temperature of 38 ° to colder external temperatures and especially the evacuation of the water molecules … Read more

Since the classical work of the late Paul Patterson, it is known that the activation of the immune system during the intrauterine period produces an autistic syndrome by activating the immune system and causing the release of inflammatory molecules such as interleukins which will impact the cerebral maturation. It is also known that in rodents … Read more

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often find it difficult to look others in the eyes, and we don’t exactly know why. What could be granted for indifference could actually have a completely different explanation. Indeed, according to Nouchine Hadjikhani, cofounder of Neurochlore and director of the Neurolimbic Research Laboratory in the Martinos Center in … Read more