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Study Indicates That Autism Affects Entire Brain
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Study Indicates That Autism Affects Entire Brain
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Hi Wayne,
Interestingly, Parkinson's is similar in that it's just not the substantia nigra cells which are affected, but there are changes all over the brain.
In cases like my mom's so-called Parkinson's Plus disorder, these patients exhibit other broader types of symptoms for years before they develop the more easily recognized classical PD symptoms.
All these sorts of global things get lumped into the idiopathic category, and they sure do remind me of the global results of our gut problems.
Of course, the most destructive aspect of PD is the killing off of the substantia nigra cells.
Mom was diagnosed back in '93, I think, while in her 70's, but I'd been noticing little things that would show up now and again, for decades before that that just didn't add up to me, like very brief departures from reality, in my opinion, and short term episodes of childishness -- very atypical of my mother.
I had always known that she didn't show signs of having a true psychosis or they wouldn't have been so transient. Besides, I'd worked with people with psychoses for so long that I could easily spot that, had it been coming on.
Also, people get the big psychiatric diagnoses when they are in their 20's usually, and she was fine til her 60's or so, until the PD showed up a decade later or at least was diagnosed then. It would be possible to have vascular changes result in this, but don't think those come in passing like that either, typically.
All this makes me wonder if perhaps all these years, my mom didn't have the neurological type of celiac disease, especially since she's got a pair of HDL CD2 genes. That certainly wouldn't preclude her having been effected by exposures to pesticides, etc.
Matter of fact, I think that we, as a group, are more susceptible to these chemicals for some reason. She may not be since apparently, gluten is the only antigen that she builds up antibodies to.
If you care to peak, there was an entry by someone on an older site, ah hmm, that described an MRI that showed "white spots" all over her brain. Also, I know of another gs person who had idiopathic white spots on her spine like MS, but the
serology was negative for MS. I've read that this happens with gs.
Perhaps the age that this stuff activates ones genes determines which condition and ultimately diagnoses one gets?? It's interesting that autistic people have difficulty with movement, and handwriting since PWPD have problems with those. Afterall, PD is classified as a "movement disorder."
I wonder if M.J. Foxes' organization ever answered Dr. Fine's e-mail about a possible connection with celiac disease? Last I heard, they had not responded.
By the way, is there anything new on Dr. Fine's website? I've not had much time to visit in a while.
Thanks for that great article!
Yours, Luce
Interestingly, Parkinson's is similar in that it's just not the substantia nigra cells which are affected, but there are changes all over the brain.
In cases like my mom's so-called Parkinson's Plus disorder, these patients exhibit other broader types of symptoms for years before they develop the more easily recognized classical PD symptoms.
All these sorts of global things get lumped into the idiopathic category, and they sure do remind me of the global results of our gut problems.
Of course, the most destructive aspect of PD is the killing off of the substantia nigra cells.
Mom was diagnosed back in '93, I think, while in her 70's, but I'd been noticing little things that would show up now and again, for decades before that that just didn't add up to me, like very brief departures from reality, in my opinion, and short term episodes of childishness -- very atypical of my mother.
I had always known that she didn't show signs of having a true psychosis or they wouldn't have been so transient. Besides, I'd worked with people with psychoses for so long that I could easily spot that, had it been coming on.
Also, people get the big psychiatric diagnoses when they are in their 20's usually, and she was fine til her 60's or so, until the PD showed up a decade later or at least was diagnosed then. It would be possible to have vascular changes result in this, but don't think those come in passing like that either, typically.
All this makes me wonder if perhaps all these years, my mom didn't have the neurological type of celiac disease, especially since she's got a pair of HDL CD2 genes. That certainly wouldn't preclude her having been effected by exposures to pesticides, etc.
Matter of fact, I think that we, as a group, are more susceptible to these chemicals for some reason. She may not be since apparently, gluten is the only antigen that she builds up antibodies to.
If you care to peak, there was an entry by someone on an older site, ah hmm, that described an MRI that showed "white spots" all over her brain. Also, I know of another gs person who had idiopathic white spots on her spine like MS, but the
serology was negative for MS. I've read that this happens with gs.
Perhaps the age that this stuff activates ones genes determines which condition and ultimately diagnoses one gets?? It's interesting that autistic people have difficulty with movement, and handwriting since PWPD have problems with those. Afterall, PD is classified as a "movement disorder."
I wonder if M.J. Foxes' organization ever answered Dr. Fine's e-mail about a possible connection with celiac disease? Last I heard, they had not responded.
By the way, is there anything new on Dr. Fine's website? I've not had much time to visit in a while.
Thanks for that great article!
Yours, Luce
Luce,
That's a very interesting connection, isn't it.
I haven't noticed anything different over at Dr. Fines site, but it's been a couple of weeks or so since I've been there.
Tex
That's a very interesting connection, isn't it.
I haven't noticed anything different over at Dr. Fines site, but it's been a couple of weeks or so since I've been there.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.