Decoding Autism: Unraveling Early Brain Development with Eric Courchesne
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- Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., explores autism, highlighting its complexity beyond the brain and its connection to genetics and brain development. He focuses on the "temporal cortex," a crucial area in autism research associated with gene regulation and social processing. Courchesne also shares how his personal journey with polio has informed his thinking on neurodiversity, research, and beating the odds.
Recorded on 11/03/2023. [Show ID: 39171]
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Thank you, Eric! Your work is appreciated and your vulnerability is applauded.
I also have a comment, and that is the brain organoid findings really de-bunk the Neurotypical saying they use to marginalize Autistic people and our Autism diagnoses, namely "'Everyone's a little bit Autistic." It seems, either you have the brain overgrowth or you don't and either you have the reliable unfolding of the Neurotypical developmental program or you don't.
Everyone is NOT a bit autistic but as the mother of an autistic child I have some to a reckoning with the BROAD Autistic Phenotype, which is to say me and my husband have some very prominent autistic traits because we each have some dysregulated genes. Such that one of our children had the saturation point for autism. I have severe anxiety and severe social problems, my husband has ADHD and prominent sensory issues. I have never met anyone who can hear things the way he can. So there basically is a pool of people with enough of the genes that if they partner with another person with enough of the genes they have a high chance of producing an autistic child.
@@amorg319 Yes, SImon Baron-Cohen wrote about the assortative mating in Autism. As far as "the broader Autism phenotype," with the discovery of rare Neanderthal alleles in Autistic people it may well be that some of the parents skirting being Autistic themselves will ultimately be determined Autistic while undergoing today's "personalized medicine." It's a whole new World !
Hi Mary, can you please post a link to your most recent work here? Thank you.
Thank you for this. What timing too. I just got back from being assessed for autism (f 37). I'm also a neuro major/immu minor at university. I'd love to be apart of your studies, but I am in Australia.
I relearned how to founction with neurofeedback. But I know too many people on the severe end of the spectrum that needs help and no one can at that moment. This is so sad. My life choices are make in that consideration. Noway I will pass my genes to another generation.
That's great to hear. My son also had neurofeedback and it help him to train his brain to focus. These problems might be epi-genetic. Keep up the good work!
@@solitairecat1 I think I was a case mainly driven by my poor immune system. I was living in a house infested by mold I was sick almost all the time. I think that was the think that put me on the spectrum. Some researchers now suggest that some cases are preventable due to metabolism or immune dysfonction.
I have a question - did you find out anything that would help with understanding if the prevalence of Autism in females is about the same as in males ?
what caused gene disregulation?
Fascinating! Thank you for your work.
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I have autism. I bet they dont want to look into it because its probably caused by some all too common stuff that they or other companies make money off of. Stuff like plastics ( micro plastics are all over the news) or pesticides (sprayed on most foods) or those forever chemicals (tons of products).. And if one figures out the actual cause by looking at the biology what will they do about those products? Theu make fortunes off of that stuff. No huge company wants to stop making their stuff just because some babies they will never know are born with autism due to the parents being exposed to something. Its not them. The rich people dont know the parents or the kids with autism..so they dont care. I have so many allergies to stuff its not funny. Chemical sensitivity. Food allergies. hEDS. Celiac. Corn allergy.
Thank you for your story
Thank you for sharing your journey and motivation for exploring neurodiversity and how we can survive as neurodivergent. I always considered my feelings of being different were because of polio at 5 years. I can empathise with the apparent abusive treatment that ultimately has allowed us to live our lives with the appearance of normality. Fortunately my recovery was more complete than Eric and I did not need surgery after my temporary paralysis, though my later accomplishments are miniscule compared with his. Having reached my 8th decade I look back trying to untangle my PTSD from what I now can recognise as an underlying autism that has driven me to an intensity of study to obtain a PhD and an academic career.
If autistic genes were not some how necessary for the survival of us as a species I think they would have been eliminated many millennia ago.
Autism is the opposite condition of Schizophrenia. One has too many neural pathways while the other has too few.
It is not the opposite of schizophrenia. At all.
@@jjames2162Neurotrophin defects are the root cause of Autism and Schizophrenia. They just occur at different stages of neurological development. Autism pares too few neural pathways in early development while Schizophrenia pares too many in adolescence.
@@chuckwhite3033 There are relationships between the two but your statement remains incorrect. I have 30 years of experience in clinical work. Get back to me when you finish yours
@@chuckwhite3033 I have a real problem with a overarching single panaceas or cure-all's with complex conditions.
Until studied and proven.
When you say this assertion about Autism and Schizophrenia in isolation of all context other than “neural pathways”, it’s inconclusive. Why do you think this? What evidence and sources do you have?