tailieunhanh - Functional Medicine: The Way to Treat Autism Now

Study differences in experimental design, including choice of spectral bands, brain regions, brain states (activated or resting) and type of analysis, as well as small sample sizes, differences in sample age ranges, diversityofseverityofimpairment, lack of replication tests and disparity of results make difficult a meaningful summary of spectral coherence findings in ASD. Furthermore, few studies considered the reality of ASD group-specific EEG artifacts, including eye blink and muscle movement, and their potential spurious effects upon coherence. Also, few studies addressed the con- founding effect of differing EEG recording reference techniques upon coherence [31]. This leaves wide open the question of whether the reported diverse study find- ings reflect marked variability of brain function within the. | Functional Medicine The Way to Treat Autism Now By JEFFREY BLAND . is more important to know what patient has the disease than to know what disease the patient has. So said by the very wise Sir William Osler whom some call the father of modern medicine some 100 years ago. People have processes they don t have diseases. When we codify processes into diseases we do it to make things practitioners to integrate diagnosis signs and symptoms and evidence of clinical imbalances through the lens of the patient s story into a comprehensive approach to improve both the patient s environmental inputs and his simple to understand and to memorize. But with simplification context and insight are lost. So many chronic medical conditions that are on the rise today of which autism is one are poorly served by being reduced to a disease diagnosis. In the medicine of the future we will need to restore this context and insight. The personal and biological histories of each patient are complex and this complexity offers opportunities for treatment and reduction of the burden of suffering. Advances in molecular medicine also support the return to the individual patient. Knowledge about genetic and metabolic individuality and tools for measuring these things now make it pos- or her physiological function. As science progresses and as we listen to patients and their families we y are learning that autism is not a single disease but rather a variation of a theme of neurobio- logical behavior. It is not a consequence of a flawed gene or a damaged child. In fact sible to aim for a truly sophisticated individualized medicine. many people with autism are brilliant. The framework of functional medicine Jones 2005 is particularly well suited for meeting the needs of patients with chronic medical problems. Key to its approach is to integrate the patient s story with advanced biological insight. Measures of clinical imbalance are tools to augment the power of this story. Functional medicine .