Cell Energy Dysfunction Seen in Autism

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http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/12/07 ... 21396.html

Personally, I think that they are making an error by only observing deficits.

Makes a lot of sense to me.

This makes a lot of sense. Could also explain why there's so much variance in autism/asperger's cases in terms of severity. Mitochondria could exhibit varying degrees of dysfunction, giving the brain varying levels of reduced energy.

I don't have exercise intolerance, seizures or cognitive decline. I've never heard of the former being associated with autism at all, actually.

Well, if true, that's an as-yet-untried avenue for biomed, and moreover it actually makes sense and explains contradictory observations.

The proof is in the pudding. I think I'll use myself as a guinea pig. If I have such deficiencies, supplements should be of benefit. When I get around to it (I have mixed feelings on the idea of trying a cocktail of OTC drugs on myself, plus I don't exercise much in the winter so I couldn't judge whether my stamina increased), I'll post the results here.

I do not have seizures. I do not know how I would determine whether or not I had either of the others. I do know that I've never been particularly athletic, and have in fact been laughably horrible at physical activity my whole life.

Ideally, I would do a big study on this. Hmm. Actually, that sounds really interesting.

I was talking to someone whose sin died from a severe version of this. During the discussion, I remmbered the neurologist (on the spectrum) who was redoing old scan experiments, and found that HFA typically had a greater number of base processor neurons, but lacked proper inter-connectivity between regions in the brain. I remembered an article I read in Science News that involved stimulating a rat's whiskers during a stroke, which increased blood flow to the affected region of the rat's brain which kept it functioning. Perhaps the purpose of stimming?