tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post5985406061840731758..comments2024-03-27T20:20:54.505+01:00Comments on Epiphany: Traumatic Brain Injury and Autism, linked again, but not in a good wayPeter Lloyd-Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173383229834614994noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post-18465322230370475512022-08-24T20:55:16.632+02:002022-08-24T20:55:16.632+02:00This article appeared in the journal Military Medi...This article appeared in the journal Military Medicine. It is very good that the US DOD looks after its current troops and veterans. Most countries do not do this.<br /><br />I came across research years ago to use intranasal TRH to treat suicidal tendencies in veterans. The DOD was providing millions of dollars to develop the drug, little did they know that Dr Jay Goldstein had been making his own spray for years to treat his patients in California. The Japanese have an orally available version.Peter Lloyd-Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10173383229834614994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post-71007841897364304732022-08-23T22:35:51.119+02:002022-08-23T22:35:51.119+02:00I found this article on treating combat PTSD very ...I found this article on treating combat PTSD very interesting: <br /><br /> Novel Pharmacological Targets for Combat PTSD—Metabolism, Inflammation, The Gut Microbiome, and Mitochondrial Dysfunction. <br />https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/185/Supplement_1/311/5740670?login=false <br /><br />Many of the treatments they recommend - pioglitazone, CoQ10, ALA, anti-inflammatories - are identical to autism. It seems the military is finally paying attention to the neurological basis of PTSD. Hopefully this will lead to better treatments for ASD in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post-12065164080740153392018-07-19T12:01:33.930+02:002018-07-19T12:01:33.930+02:00The term he used "psychopathy" is from G...The term he used "psychopathy" is from German "psychopathirien" which had a different meaning (from wikipedia):<br />"After World War I German psychiatrists dropped the term inferiors/defectives (Minderwertigkeiten) and used psychopathic (psychopathisch) and its derivatives instead, at that time a more neutral term covering a wide range of conditions. Emil Kraepelin, Kurt Schneider and Karl Birnbaum developed categorisation schemes under the heading 'psychopathic personality', only some subtypes of which were thought to have particular links to antisocial behaviour."<br /><br />"In the first decades of the 20th century, "constitutional psychopathic inferiority" had become a commonly used term in the US, implying the issue was inherent to the genetics or makeup of the person, an organic disease.[24] As a category it was used to target any and all dysfunctional or antisocial behavior, and in psychiatric categorization it labeled a broad range of alleged mental deviances, including homosexuality.[25] Some courts began to develop "psychopathic laboratories" for the classification and treatment of offenders; the term psychopathic was chosen to avoid the social stigma of "lunacy" or "insanity", while emphasizing variance from normality rather than simply a mental hygiene issue."<br /><br />Likewise the word "gay, queer, boner" were different in meaning way back when too. Maybe you already know this though. <br /><br />No doubt some mass shooters are on the spectrum, some more aspergers like Rodger, Lanza I think was a bit further along the spectrum, he didn't speak until he was older than 3 and was slow they said, a lot less functional.<br /><br />Some diagnoses (retrospective) like Tesla and Dahmer are plausible, but some like De Gaul and Ted Bundy are just bullcrap if you get down to it. One thing to keep in mind is the high rates of ASD relative to other conditions, I believe the violence rate is higher than normal but not exceptionally high for a mental condition. Since there are 4-5 ASDs for each schizophrenic for example, you get more incidents. And most of these are in the west, especially the USA oddly. <br /><br />All in all there are ASD killers, SCZ killers, Head injured Killers, Bipolar Killers, Borderline Killers, it's just with ASD there is not much motivation to do something about it, which if there were, ironically there would be less ASD cases of violence. <br /><br />BTw, of course someone with very severe autism won't be a killer, but I can imagine some edging towards classic autism like Lanza could. Likewise SCZ killers tend to be schizotypal, schizoaffective, or a mild to moderate severity, obviously a severely disorganized catatonic schizophrenic in an institution isn't going to be able to plan out an attack. But in both cases something like grabbing a knife or launching yourself onto a randoms stranger out of nowhere, unplanned, is not out of the question, and that goes for head injury too, someone drooling in a wheelchair from brain damage isn't like someone with a small but precise dent to say, the frontal lobe where judgement is, and so on and so on with many of the possible conditions people have named before linked to violent acts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post-68486029303895406512018-07-19T12:00:54.484+02:002018-07-19T12:00:54.484+02:00There are some things with the study kinda off. It...There are some things with the study kinda off. It lists Jared Loughner and a bunch of people who were only suspected of having it, many by Michael Fitzgerald, the guy who came up with that new idea of "criminal autistic psychopathy". Loughner's behaviour began too late for an ASD diagnosis, those close to him said he acted abnormally around his late teens, as if he suddenly changed into a different being. Plus Michael Fitzgerald is a bit of a weirdo, he has diagnosed hundreds of people retrospectively as being on the spectrum including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Charles DeGaul, and Einstein, all of who I have doubts about. <br /><br />Plus Hans Asperger wasn't the most accurate, he thought it was a male only condition among other errors, and also was found to have suppressed the research of his colleagues for his own goals. <br /><br />(cont.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post-37378833197534282992014-07-01T12:24:41.292+02:002014-07-01T12:24:41.292+02:00It does seem odd that so many people think psychia...It does seem odd that so many people think psychiatric drugs do more harm than good. If they are so bad, why are they prescribed so much? I suppose people think there must be a pill for every ill. Peter Lloyd-Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10173383229834614994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post-11568551158590200712014-06-30T05:01:10.715+02:002014-06-30T05:01:10.715+02:00Well...it's kind of like he said. You can'...Well...it's kind of like he said. You can't give seriously depressed (read suicidal) people an anti-depressant. Which actually makes their whole "solution" for depression pretty laughable. 80% of the country is hopped up on something and is liable to do...well, anything...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655962722302095847.post-71531896296456432562014-06-29T16:51:16.797+02:002014-06-29T16:51:16.797+02:00I'd be very interested in knowing if they did ...I'd be very interested in knowing if they did a study as to whether they were taking any medications (and which ones). Perhaps they play a role as wellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com