"Best" "Treatment"?

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I know that there is no idealised "treatment" for everyone, but how would you perceive the best method of dealing with severe autism in children? I don't really know of the ways that severe autism is helped with these days...

Its difficult for me to intuit what severe autism is like because I don't study it. This caught my attention, though. Although I don't have a simple answer, I think there are some ways of understanding what it could be...

So what do I think anyway?:

A couple of years ago, my mother found a website that included a many of variety of treatment for aspergers but some of the stuff also seemed to have potential for the many symptoms of autism. Here is about one of them:

I think that the newest technology that we have in our modern times of scanning the brain may have potenial. Scientists have studied some of the electricial activity in the brain: the brain does work with transfering electrical energy, yes, of course. So then that data should be sent to a well-known and well-respected certified neurologist who would evaluate the data. But then that data can also be applied to neurofeedback sessions. Does this work? Probably not really, but who knows?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoked_potential

This can be seen with something called a quantititative EEG/QEEG (QEEG - also known as brain mapping).

Aside from all of that, I think that inventing new assistive technology could also be something in potential that would make things much more easier for the care-givers.

Hm. Sounds interesting!

I'm also wondering what treatments people use these days as well.

There have been many nutritional/dietary things that have also been posted here at wrongplanet - if you didn't really notice them much, now you know since I have reminded that.

Themachine1 posted some articles on supplemental products such as the Essential_fatty_acids/Omega_fatty_acids and something like this: N-acetylcysteine

I read of them(the Essential_fatty_acids) on the wikipedia encyclopedia and they do play a role in second messenger systems of signaling systems in the body. But I think that these second messengers do more than have to do with inflamation etc...

For one, one of the substances that is one of the omega-6 fatty acids can also promote what acts as a blissful feeling neurotransmitter in the brain and peripherial nervous system is Anandamide. I couldn't tell you if it is ever enough for conciousable effects, though!

Arachidonic acid (AA) is an omega-6 fatty acid + Arachidonic acid is also used in the biosynthesis of anandamide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid excerpt:

"According to an Internet survey, approximately 30% of parents use omega-3 supplements as a therapy for children with autism.[12]"

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Much of that stuff, however, comes accross to me as unrelated to the CNS signaling feeback loops but I have came accross many bits and peices of information that I don't have a clear understanding of yet but does seem to support this theory that certain supplemental(fatty acids etc) substances effect the signaling systems within the CNS. It is only a vague representation to me of what seems to be influential in the chemistry of the brain.

For one, there are receptors that I think most of them are reliant on the second cascade of their activation to the G-coupled proteins and they rely on the other second-messenger systems after-wards. This is very technical information and I should reserve it for referencing other books or internet links, however, I can try to explain my reasoning with this data nevertheless of its technicality.

So these G-coupled proteins that are latched on to the receptors such as the monoamine, adenosine, and gaba receptors are, as I read, sometimes linked to stimulating stuff like Phospholipase A2 or Cyclic AMP.

Now.. I'm not being a dietition right now reccomending a change in diet but the thing that has caught my attention recently is if anything in the diet such as the omega-6 fatty acids or other supplemental and nutritional things can significantly affect the second messenger systems in the brain to modulate neuronal behavioral functioning such as neuronal excitability etc.

Even if there were artificial means of altering those systems and that it was safe and that those systems were viable to be variable to such things then that is one thing for me to question.

let them be themselves and love them

Speech therapy if you've got a verbal impairment (autistic disorder); one on one schooling is the best for those with autistic disorder too (learning and cognitive impairments). This is going from my experience by living with "severe" autism.

Anti-anxiety and anti-depression medication as needed (Asperger's and autistic disorder).