Discovery News published very promising and interesting news.
One characteristic of people with Autism, AD/HD and Schizophrenia, is that in their cerebral activity either don’t have gamma waves at all, or they are very irregular. The idea is to induce gamma ray activity in the brain by triggering lasers set in specific frequencies.
April 29, 2009 — Lasers could one day cure, or at least aid in the search for drugs that treat diseases ranging from autism to schizophrenia, according to two new studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University and published in the online issue of the journal Nature.
A blue laser shined into a live mouse brain triggered gamma waves, which are a kind of brain wave necessary for concentration and cognition that people with autism and schizophrenia often lack.
“There are lots of theories about why [gamma wave oscillation] is impaired,” said Li-Huei Tsai, a professor at MIT and a co-author on one of theNature papers.
“This is the first proof that a specific set of neurons are responsible for gamma waves.”
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Thanks for the info. This is interesting. My son vacilates from day to day in his behavior and even skin appearance. He’s a very complex case of classic autism. Clearly, the brain waves episodically functioning makes sense, and if there’s a way to keep them stable, that would most likely be helpful. My son’s on you tube under kgaccount. Or type in autism and self injury. It’s a side of autism rarely shown.
Thanks for the info. This is interesting. My son vacilates from day to day in his behavior and even skin appearance. He’s a very complex case of classic autism. Clearly, the brain waves episodically functioning makes sense, and if there’s a way to keep them stable, that would most likely be helpful. My son’s on you tube under kgaccount. Or type in autism and self injury. It’s a side of autism rarely shown.
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