Study compiles and grades autism treatments

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https://www.aacp.com/Pages.asp?AID=8147

Apparently, I am already doing some of the B treatments: carnitine, tetrahydrobiopterin, vitamin C, alpha-2 adrenergic agonists, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, immunomodulation and anti-inflammatory treatments, oxytocin, and vision therapy.

acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and melatonin sound good as well. Some natural sources of the former: http://fabad.org/fabad.org/pdf/volum28/ ... 8,2003.pdf

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Music therapy sounds good.

Fun too, and relaxing. Works for stress management. I'd be willing to bet that music therapy works for just about anything, simply because people like music and happy, relaxed people learn better.

But they have such very loose criteria for including "novel and emerging autism treatments". Check out that site--to be graded "A", you have to have two "prospective randomized controlled trials" or one systematic review (which could be a review of case studies, by the way). "Prospective" meaning... what, "We haven't done this experiment yet, but we plan to"? "We've done preliminary research"? "We have funding"? And they searched ALL of PubMed and Google Scholar, both of which include publications that aren't peer-reviewed. And articles published since 1966 were eligible. 1966, seriously? That doesn't sound like "novel and emerging" to me; it sounds like "let's blow the dust off this stuff and hope it doesn't choke us".

Please leave me alone!! Write your PhD dissertation about someone, something, else, and please leave me alone.

Hey, don't worry--you won't get included in research unless you agree to it. That's part of the ethics classes they teach everybody going into their undergrad, and conducting unethical research is something that'll ruin your career as a scientist. At the very, very most, without your consent, they can use anonymous numbers--like a count of how many autistic students are in your school system, for example. They can't test you, interview you, or even use specific information that your doctor gathered about you, without your giving the okay about it. There've been some pretty bad abuses of research subjects in the past; nowadays people--especially people just working on their dissertations--are all too aware that their name will be dirt if they're caught doing anything unethical like that, and they can kiss their PhD goodbye. And if anybody does try to include you or your data in a study without your permission (or at least your guardian's permission if you have one), then you document it and go to the news media or get a lawyer, and watch them scramble trying to cover their butts, because they'll be in the wrong and they'll know it.