How long do you think its going to take UCLA to find a cure for Autism?

Question

How much do you think it will cost?

How much does it cost for surgery?

Do you think the cure will take affect within 1 to 5 days and be cured?

Answer 1

I have the cure for most autism. If someone splits your head open with a hammer what do you do? Go get medical treatment, correct? Various treatments may be indicated depending on who you go to and the seriousness of the injury. You may or may not be healed by these treatments. The best thing to do is avoid getting hit in the head. That is the cure for autism, stop injuring the brains and nervous systems of infants with unneeded vaccinations to the child and the pregnant mother. The best that can be done by UCLA is a treatment that may or may not restore the person to health. PS-there are already biomedical treatments that work.

Answer 2

It might be someone else that makes a major break through. I believe the medical profession and the drug industry have no incentive or desire to bring about any cures, so more likely than not you will find some sort of a "treatment" that will cost you a couple of a hundre dollars a month. What we need is an incentive for cures. I say something like federal generous pensions for individuals or teams of researches, maybe teams of up to 50 persons that bring about cures. But for now I think a cure will not happen.

Answer 3

The genetic testing will come within 10-15 years. They have already identified several possible mutations. The question will be is how to prevent the gene from switching on to prevent autistic symptoms. There is currently a huge database being developed with autistic kids and their siblings ( whether normal or delayed). The breast cancer gene has been identified but they don't know why some get cancer and others don't.
Surgery is not needed in autism. Surgery is only done to correct seizures, gastrointestinal problems, etc.
Autism is a complex disorder and there will be no specific treatment. It is based on individual symptoms. No current therapy works for all ASD.
It takes years of therapy just to get the speech corrected. Many kids start as speechless, then work to one words, phrases, and finally sentences. The behavioral and social issues will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Answer 4

It's already been found. UCLA medical school knows what causes it and how to cure about half of the severe cases. It's just that nobody wants to talk about it, because it turns out autism might be psychogenic after all. This disturbing fact was first discovered by the Scottish Sensory Center for the blind. Here is an excerpt of what they had to say about it:

“It was notable that all the children who suffered setback regressed between 15-27 months. This does seem to be a particularly vulnerable period of development, with a number of other conditions (eg, Rett syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, some cases of autism in the sighted) becoming apparent at around the same time.
This information can be integrated by the hypothesis that the onset of regression is triggered in neurologically vulnerable children by a constellation of environmental conditions (that are in some way suboptimal for a blind child) occurring at a critical stage in the development of attention control and social interaction (see figure 8).
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4 A Worrying Dilemma
This explanation gives rise to a serious dilemma: On the one hand, many people working in the field of autism are understandably disturbed by any aetiological explanation which has an environmental component, fearing a resurgence of the outdated and damaging "refrigerator parent" theory. At the same time, many educators and therapists with extensive experience in the field of visual impairment are unhappy about rationalisations which are based on a pre-programmed neurological theory, feeling that this does not intuitively hold true for the children under their care.”


http://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/resources/vi&multi/hcass96.html

In other words, scientists are discovering inconvenient truths about autism.

Incidentally; I don't really know if UCLA has found a cure. But there is an effective treatment for autism that seems to be working well enough. It's based on psychoanalytic works mainly of Eriksen and Piaget.

http://www.division39.org/pub_reviews_detail.php?book_id=228

Another effective treatment along the same lines has been developed by various modern psychoanalysts. Dr. Anne Alvarez has written a book about it:

http://www.amazon.ca/Autism-Personality-Findings-Tavistock-Workshop/dp/041514602X/ref=sr_1_1/701-7749903-7695519?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189751937&sr=1-1

Answer 5

Autism is very complex and is a fault in the cortex in the brain.
It is something that people are born with so that means a cure is harder to find.
The spectrum of autism is varied and wide there have been developments in treating the severity of autism.
It is getting better and science has proven that if diagnoses happens early and intensive learning happens before the age of five symptoms are not as severe in children who are diagnosed til later.
I don't think that there will be a quick fix solution for a long long time.

Answer 6

I think that a cure for atheism is more important.

2 points.

Answer 7

Forever, billions and billions of dollars, no surgery required, no way!