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  • 309 Residential Insights Improve Care – McCartney-2
    Residential Insights – The Quiet Revolution
    We care for kids from 6 to 17 in a residential environment with a variety of problems from misbehaviors at home or school – to suicidal ideation. At Barry Robinson we set plans from the outset to help each child achieve an improved sense of personal responsibility and self awareness in a balanced, caring environment. Our teams objective: to redesign the standards for residential care.
    ~ Robert McCartney
    Rob’s Residential Insights – His Quality Care Mission
    As Executive Director of The Barry Robinson Center, a short-term 72-bed non-profit behavioral health system/residential program for both children and adolescents in Norfolk, VA, Rob sets a new, exemplary standard for residential care through improved residential insights.
    In this interesting episode, Rob discusses important details in the evolution of family-oriented residential care, including his innovative program to dramatically decrease physical holding and how he abolished seclusion as a means of child/adolescent management.
    You will appreciate hearing Rob’s report on the evolution of his programs and how he manages to keep families together even though far apart. From the time they come in, he’s planning on their going home.
    Ed Note: This is a republish of an earlier interview with insights about the evolution of residential care.
    Rob’s Most Significant Contribution
    For years The Barry Robinson Center, here in Tidewater Virginia, only a few miles from our offices here at CoreBrain Journal and CorePsych, remained stuck in outdated thinking so prevalent even today in residential care facilities nationally.
    That world has changed. Their programs work with clients both nationally and internationally.
    Succinctly, Rob’s treatment mission connects both individual/personal values with family evolution in innovated connected ways that help with the transition back home.
    Rob’s leadership coupled with his excellent team, as you will hear in this CBJ/309 Episode, brings an explicit, deeper, more thoughtful treatment mission to an already remarkable campus. Here he tells you why and how.
    Rob’s Residential Care Insights
    * I woke up in Atlanta with mind-changing experience
    * The opportunity to work with military families and kids
    * Today 75-80% of our kids are from military families, globally
    * Our non-profit status helps us add more value for their experience here
    * It’s not the job of residential to train the kids to be good residential kids
    * How I approach the important issue of restraint and seclusion
    * You have to recognize your personal stuff from the start
    * How to shop for residential care
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    * The Barry Robinson Center – Norfolk, VA
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    39 min
  • 308 Home Toxin Solutions – Pizzorno-2
    Home Toxins Can Contribute To Your Chronic Illness
    Through deep ongoing research, I found the one link causing unexplained symptoms, chronic disease and pain – and also a way to reverse them. The impact toxins are having on our health are devastating – however, the reversal is astounding.
    ~ Dr. Joe Pizzorno
    Dr. Joseph Pizzorno, Seattle – His illuminating Toxin Report here at CBJ/308 is mandatory listening. In addition to research and humanitarian reportage, Dr. Pizzorno is the President of Salugenecists, Inc. and Chief Medical Director for the well known Village Green Apothecary. It’s a privilege to introduce Dr. Pizzorno to our well-informed audience, as he is one of the world’s leading authorities on science-based natural medicine, a term he coined in 1978 when founding the highly regarded Bastyr University. He led Bastyr to became the first fully accredited, multidisciplinary university of natural medicine and the primary school of its kind to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). [Previously posted at CBJ/103.]
    This CBJ interview with Dr. Pizzorno will firmly open your door for improved attention to a topic that should prove dear to every family globally: The Toxin Solution – How Hidden Poisons —- Are Destroying Our Health. His comments here and in this new book will make you first go to the kitchen and then into your makeup drawer to check those labels. …And he tells you exactly how to check product toxicity on an app! You will love this one; he’s outstanding. But beware, his commentary might make you paranoid.
    Denial Action
    And, as you become progressively less shocked while listening, immediately forward this CBJ/308 to your family and friends who, for their longevity and health, must clean up their toxin-denial.
    Pizzorno’s exemplary toxin research and clinical experience illuminate the unseen damaging toxic molecular realities all of us face as we continue to produce and use more of these products over time.
    His Comprehensive Experience
    He served as chairman of the American Public Health Association SPIG on CAM from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he joined the Scientific Review Board of the Cancer Treatment Research Foundation and the Institute for Functional Medicine Board of Directors (for which he now serves as chairman). In 2002, he became the founding editor of IMCJ – Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, the most widely distributed peer-reviewed journal in the field of functional medicine, included in PubMed. He has served as a licensed naturopathic physician in Washington State since 1975. In June 2000, Pizzorno retired after 22 years serving as the president of Bastyr University. He continues as president emeritus.
    Dr. Pizzorno’s Honors
    Pizzorno has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2006 at the 50th anniversary of the founding of National College of Naturopathic Medicine, he received recognition as its most illustrious graduate.
    In 2004, Natural Foods Merchandiser recognized him as one of the 25 leaders in therapeutic nutrition, and he received from the Institute of Functional Medicine with the Linus Pauling Award for his “decades of work establishing the scientific and educational foundation of natural medicine.” In 2003, the American Holistic Medical Association recognized him as one of the 25 “Pioneers in Holistic Medicine.” In 2002, he was awarded “Naturopathic Physician of the Year” by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and received the “Founder’s Award for Pioneering Complementary and Alternative Medicine” by the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine.
    In 2001,
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  • 307 Glyphosate Toxins & Mind Science – Seneff-2
    Profound Insights On Glyphosate, Mind Science & Culture
    Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She received the B.S. degree in Biophysics in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1985, all from MIT. In this CBJ Episode, she details profound contributions regarding the glyphosate contribution to today’s health care crisis.
    Ed. Note: This is a republish of an exceedingly important report from a global thought leader on the origins of autism, ASD, PDD.
    For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation: developing a computational model for the human auditory system, and an understanding human language so as to develop algorithms and systems for human-computer interactions, as well as applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to gene predictions.
    Seneff Reports Here On Glyphosate
    She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects and has presented keynote speeches at several international conferences. She has also supervised numerous Masters and Ph.D. theses at MIT. In 2012, Dr. Seneff was elected Fellow of the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA).
    Dr. Seneff’s Focus on Glyphosate Ubiquity
    In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology. Today she concentrates mainly on the relationship between nutrition and health. Her recent work on the ubiquity of neurotoxic effects from glyphosate provides specific references for the profound relevance of agricultural practices that directly contribute to today’s health care crisis.
    Since 2011, she has published over two dozen papers in various medical and health-related journals on topics such as modern-day diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s, autism, cardiovascular diseases), analysis and search of databases of drug side effects using NLP techniques, and the impact of nutritional deficiencies and associated glyphosate toxicity. Must listen.
    Dr. Seneff’s Comments Linked Here at CBJ/307
    * I started with an interest in autism many years ago 
    * I was searching and striking out with aluminum, lead  and vaccines
    * Glyphosate substitutes for glycine
    * All of these diseases are going up exponentially
    * The core relationship & specific foods that suffer from the connections between GMO modification and Roundup
    * The likely connection between IgG, Glyphosate, and food sensitivities
    * Glycine palindrome sequencing and specific brain ‘diseases’ Mad Cow and Alzheimer’s
    * Glyphosate, neurotransmitters, thyroid, and melatonin aberrations via the shikimate pathway
    * It also significantly disturbs mineral pathways through chelation
    * Details on manganese deficiency, sulphur and methylation challenges re: autism 
    * Autism, sulfate, glutamate and the leaky blood-brain barrier
    * Our epidemic of inflammation and sulfate dysregulations create additional challenges associated with autoimmunity
    * Glyphosate dysregulates folate and methylation pathways 
    * A brief summary on testing and treatment
    * Key foods that I strongly recommend to detox glyphosate
    CBJ Additional Reports On Similar Issues
    I strongly recommend these next CBJ episodes from these highly regarded and deeply evolved neuroscience researchers.
    * Dr.
    55 min
  • 306 What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew – Saline-2
    Parent Alert! ADHD Parenting Evolves
    Dr. Sharon Saline, Northampton, MA, Sharon Saline, a clinical psychologist and author What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life, specializes in working with kids, young adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities and other mental health issues. The upshot of her work is the instructive guide for ADHD Parenting.
    Her unique perspective – as a sibling in an ADHD home, combined with decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and educator/clinician consultant – assists her in guiding families and adults towards effective communication and closer connections. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as understanding ADHD, executive functioning, different kinds of learners and the teen brain.
    How: Dr. Saline’s Helpful Advice To Reconsider ADHD Parenting – The 5 C’s
    Based on dozens of interviews from kids and families as well as clinical examples, this book shares the voices of kids with ADHD themselves and provides a parenting model that emphasizes practical approaches to everyday challenges and helps parents of all kids, not just those with ADHD.
    My approach for ADHD Parenting progress is called The 5C’s of ADHD Parenting – it relies on:
    * Self-Control,
    * Compassion,
    * Collaboration,
    * Consistency, and
    * Celebration
    Why
    These daily practices reduce the frustration that most families living with the ADHD parenting experience. Kids with ADHD want to be included in discussions of plans aimed at helping them.
    When they don’t feel heard or considered, they lack buy-in and cooperation. They need direct instruction to improve executive functioning challenges and usually can identify areas where they need help.
    Kids with ADHD want to be noticed for their efforts, not just their failures. They hear so much criticism that they don’t believe feedback can be positive. It’s often hard for them to get motivated or like themselves in light of the amount of negativity they receive.
    Photo by Simon Rae on Unsplash
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    Links
    * What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew – 2018, Saline
    * Dr. Saline’s Office:  www.drsharonsaline.com – Additional Information
    Parker ADHD Training Modules
    * ADHD101 – 55 lessons + coaching: How to measure, target, & treat brain/biomedical realities  https://www.corebrainacademy.com/adhd-treatment-failure
    * The PM Drop – Minicourse: Learn how to use the most common medication problems to correct treatment activities & comorbid conditions not initially recognized.
    https://www.corebrainacademy.com/pm-drop
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    Parker At The Autism Recovery Summit – ADHD/Autism
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    Multiple CBJ Experts Weigh In
    * CBJ Teens Page with Multiple Expert References: http://corebrainjournal.com/teens
    * ADHD Parents Palooza Summit: 39 Experts...
    42 min
  • 305 Multiple Brain Integration Technique – Your 3 Brains – Lee-Emery-2
    Multiple Brain Integration Technique – Use Every Brain Effectively
    Bill Lee Emery – Is a coach who joins us from The Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia for this interesting review of our three brains, – what they do, and how to use them effectively. He is an mBIT – Multiple Brain Integration Technique – Coach and mBIT Master Trainer – and his favorite tribe-folk are heart-based entrepreneurs. [Is there an entrepreneur out there who isn’t heart based?]
    This interview will take you to places you intuitively already knew, and then adds clear maps with improved brain function markers to improve your response accuracy and timing.
    Ed. Note: This is a republish of CBJ/207 because it’s a remarkably useful tool for any providers understanding ways to address previously unrecognized perceptions.
    Bill’s Mission Is Both Deep & Practical for Everyday Life
    Bill has a passion for helping people learn about themselves. Through his work over the past 35 years, he has taught thousands of clients and students how to improve various aspects of their lives through utilitarian coaching for improved self-management. Besides working in the corporate world, Bill facilitated personal growth programs at one of Australia’s best-known health resorts in Queensland.
    Multiple Brain Integration Techniques find application in many of life’s venues.
    He has also worked with many elite sportspeople including the Australian National Skydiving Team and other individuals including world-class cyclists, triathletes, and golfers. He is the author of four books, appeared on several TV programs including ‘Good Morning Australia’ and has featured on various radio programs throughout Australia and overseas. – Strongly recommended, very interesting at any level.
    Photo by Vlad Tchompalov on Unsplash
    Listen To Bill Explain How Each Brain Works
    mBIT, Mulitple Brain Integration Technique, offers unique insights and highly efficient processes you can easily train to use to overcome these kinds of challenges in your life.
    Through a series of relatively simple yet powerful techniques, you can balance your autonomic nervous system, allowing you easier access to communicate with your three brains.
    Once you are connected and communicating with your three brains, you now have the opportunity to align them, i.e., get them in agreement with each other. No more running in different directions. And here’s where things start to become fascinating.
    Congruency Matters
    Communication and alignment of your brains are vital for congruence, success, and happiness in life. Imagine how incredibly life-enhancing it is when your many minds are working harmoniously together to produce generative wisdom in your life!
    Having your brains aligned allows you to quickly and effortlessly tap into the innate wisdom that resides inside you. You will be able to resolve internal conflicts so that you feel more congruent in your life, bring deep intuitive sense into your decision making and action taking, connect to yourself and others in ways you may not have experienced before and create wise and compelling goals, dreams and outcomes.
    A Brief Multiple Brain Integration Technique Overview – The importance of each brain’s Prime Function
    Each mind has a defined, distinct job to do. Just like in a company or organization where different people have different roles to perform, each brain has specialized tasks.
    And yet, if we don’t know what these prime functions are or how to access them efficiently and optimally, it’s highly likely that we could find ourselves experiencing all kinds ...
    54 min
  • 304 Educational Testing Dyslexia & Social Justice – Stein -2
    Educational Testing, Social Justice, Money & Labels
    We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
    ~ Albert Einstein
    Dr. Zak Stein – Dr. Stein’s educational testing interests focus on the interface between social justice and education, including specializations in developmental psychology and ethics. He studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and his doctorate in philosophy of education at Harvard University.
    While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized educational testing in K-12, higher education, and business. He writes on a broad range of topics including the philosophy of learning, educational technology, and the fundamental theory of education translated to applications for everyday life.
    Neuroscientifically validated details also matter for educational testing. Current testing requirements, including IQ, don’t adequately cover mind complexity. Listen and comment. Consider: should the term for current standards of educational testing results and their subsequent applications with students more accurately be characterized by the term social injustice?
    Educational Testing Evolves
    Testing doesn’t adequately cover mind complexity. Imprecise results create myriads of challenges for everyone concerned – from students to teachers to school administrators and parents.
    Currently, Dr. Stein serves as Chair of the Education Program at Meridian University, and as Academic Director of the activist think-tank at the Center for Integral Wisdom.
    Ed Note: Daniel Schmachtenberger [http://corebrainjournal.com/084], our respected mutual colleague at Neurohacker, is friends with and referred Zak.
    Bottom line: our system of education-labels in the context of new measurements, new data and evolved mind considerations is woefully inadequate and potentially damaging to the lives of those mislabeled. This discussion is critical, indeed absolutely essential, dare I say mandatory, for anyone involved with any educational process. Feel free to weigh in below with a comment.
    Connect With Dr. Stein To Encourage Systemic Evolution
    “I am available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics, including Mind, Brain, and Education, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, Philosophy of Education, Social Justice, Educational Psychopharmacology, Educational Testing, and Integral Meta-Theory. I’ve been an invited speaker and workshop leader at venues such as Harvard University, The National Security Agency, Integral Institute, Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Amherst College, and a variety of academic conferences.
    At times I also offer consulting services to schools and other educational institutions around assessment, philosophical alignment of mission, vision, and practice, and developmental psychology. It has been an honor to have served in various consultancy roles with organizations such as the Department of Mind, Brain, and Education at the Harvard University Graduate of Education, Brandies University, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Long Trail School (VT), and Glastonbury Public Schools (CT).
    I occasionally provide academic coaching to graduate students and professional writers, helping them frame problems, build a course of study, conceive a research project, or simply manage their energy and stress during the completion of complex academic tasks.
    54 min
  • 303 Essential Tremor – High Intensity Focused Ultrasound – Kaplitt-2
    Essential Tremor Treated With High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
    Dr. Michael Kaplitt is the first doctor in New York to use high-intensity focused ultrasound [HIFU] to relieve a patient’s Essential Tremor – ET. The procedure is part of a new clinical trial testing the use of this technology to eliminate the source of tremors in a completely non-invasive way. Dr. Kaplitt and his neurosurgical team, along with Dr. Levi Chazen from Radiology and Dr. Harini Sarva from Neurology, were able to watch as the patient’s tremor diminished visibly during the procedure. [Listen to his patient Steve here at CBJ as he tells you what it  felt like coming out of HIFU treatment.]
    Essential tremor may be mild in some individuals, but in others, it can become debilitating over time. The tremors, which are often most severe in the hands, can interfere with everyday activities such as eating, drinking, writing or tying shoelaces.
    Ed Note: This is an important republication from CBJ/232.
    Patient Experience with Dr. Kaplitt’s Team
    We asked for this interview after working with For a previous CBJ report from a healed golfer-patient treated by Dr. Kaplitt with HIFU listen here: CBJ/221.  This Ultrasound tool and the Tremor Treatment Team at Weill Cornell Brain & Spine is simply amazing.
    Current treatment options for ET – Essential Tremor include medication as well as Deep-Brain Stimulation (DBS), which involves implanting a battery-operated neurotransmitter under the collarbone connected to a wire that runs up the length of the neck into the scalp, where it is guided to the brain through a small hole in the skull. The tip of this wire sends the electrical impulses generated by the neurotransmitter into the precise spot in the brain that regulates the activity of the key circuits in essential tremor. In a phrase, brain surgery.
    Michael Kaplitt MD, Ph.D., and the Weill Cornell team are also national leaders in the use of DBS for essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and a variety of other disorders for more than 15 years.
    Listen up as Dr. Kaplitt discusses with us this remarkable new, non-invasive procedure to correct ET without brain surgery. – And he answers some of my questions about Parkinson’s as well.
    Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
    Additional Research Work
    Dr. Kaplitt has pioneered human gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders, having performed as a student the first rodent study that used the adeno-associated virus (AAV) vehicle for gene transfer to the brain.
    He performed the world’s first human gene therapy procedure for Parkinson’s disease and more recently helped to guide the first successful randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial of this experimental treatment, which was the first positive trial of this kind for gene therapy in any brain disorder.
    His Psychiatric Side Beyond Essential Tremor
    He is also pioneering the development of novel deep brain stimulation treatments for psychiatric conditions, including refractory drug addiction. Dr. Kaplitt is an internationally recognized expert in the science of gene therapy and molecular neurobiology, and his current focus is to understand molecular dis...
    38 min
  • 302 On Biomedical Evidence – Hedaya-2
    Biomedical Evidence – Hedaya on The Biology of Mind and Body
    The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
    — Albert Einstein
    Everyday we increasingly confirm that inflammation directly effects brain function. Over time it can create permanent change.
    – Robert Hedaya 
    Treatment Failure Without Biomedical Evidence Treatment failure, especially in the face of proper training and the best information, means you’re/we’re missing something. We’re missing mind complexity. It’s not the patient’s fault. It’s not the doctor’s fault. Looking to blame someone? Blame our historical dependency on behavioral appearances.
    The inadequacy of reductionistic labels denies the complex reality of mind, body and biomedical functional complexity. The system is set to run on labels and medications that target those dancing clouds of surface appearances. We’re living in akimbo-land, with a frustrating global problem of misperception in the context of current scientific details.
    It’s not that the current psychiatric system is bad or broken – it’s excellent – and yet the labels system remains merely inadequate in the context of fresh data from modern neuroscience. Repeated imprecision builds disdain, distrust, and stigma.
    …misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
    ~ Goethe – 1774
    Don’t assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding.
    ~ Hanlon’s Razor – 1990
    Dr. Hedaya unearthed this flash of insight many years ago, back in 1985, and it continues to drive him, as he’s still searching today. In this episode, Dr. Hedaya shares his personal story and tells us how he turned his medical, psychiatric curiosity in a different direction. Hedaya emphatically encourages more critical thinking – with more systematic reviews of dynamic change, time, and context. More careful biomedical reviews do inevitably change the rules of the game.
    Listen while we discuss just how he became one of the leading national authorities in that interesting space, the polarity, between traditional psychiatry and functional medicine. Also, listen carefully to how often we both bring up inflammation as an important marker on the crossroads between these two often adversarial diagnostic and treatment strategies.
    Ed Note: Dr. Hedaya continues in active practice, and, also, remains firmly involved in mind research. In this interview, he discusses the relevance of pain and inflammation in his own life, and the discoveries he’s made on his clinical journey into the challenging territories of dementia, including TBI and Alzheimer’s. Notice how we segue into IgG measurements, and the challenges of other mind inflammations found downstream from food sensitivities.
    Note also that this is a re-publication from CoreBrain Journal/005 very soon after we started this Journal three years ago, and it is not outdated. Dr. Hedaya is an internationally prominent functional medicine psychiatrist who teaches at Georgetown, well worth a listen. Inflammation matters.
    His Message In A Sentence: Every treatment failure, every refractory, chronic mind imbalance deserves specific biomedical measurements for contributory factors, including inflammatory processes. Thanks, Bob!
    Dr. Hedaya’s Connections For Additional Measures
    * First Book:
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  • 301 Autism & Microbiota Transfer Therapy – Adams-2
    Autism & Fecal Microbiota Transfer Therapy – MTT – FMT – Update
    James B. Adams, Ph.D., is a President’s Professor at Arizona State University, where he directs the autism/Asperger’s research program, though he originally taught chemical and materials engineering there. Dr. Adams also holds a post at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. He is also the president of the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix, the co-chair of the Autism Research Institute’s scientific advisory committee, and has received the Autism Service Award from the Greater Phoenix chapter of the Autism Society of America. In this episode, he reports on microbiota transfer therapy.
    This CBJ/301 is a republication of CBJ/214 and is selected because it reveals a most interesting development in Autism Treatment directly related to gut microbiota and his research with FMTT Fecal Microbiota Transfer Therapy. Must listen!
    Photo by Artak Petrosyan on Unsplash
    Reference Details For MTT: Article Abstract
    Microbiota Transfer Therapy alters the gut ecosystem and improves gastrointestinal and autism symptoms: an open-label study.
    Publication
    Microbiome – Jan. 23, 2017
    Author(s)
    Dae-Wook Kang, James B. Adams, Ann C. Gregory, Thomas Borody, Lauren Chittick5,15, Alessio Fasano, Alexander Khoruts, Elizabeth Geis, Juan Maldonado, Sharon McDonough-Means, Elena L. Pollard, Simon Roux, Michael J. Sadowsky, Karen Schwarzberg Lipson, Matthew B. Sullivan, J. Gregory Caporaso and Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
    Background
    Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are complex neurobiological disorders that impair social interactions and communication and lead to restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities. The causes of these disorders remain poorly understood, but gut microbiota, the 1013 bacteria in the human intestines, have been implicated because children with ASD often suffer gastrointestinal (GI) problems that correlate with ASD severity.
    Several previous studies have reported abnormal gut bacteria in children with ASD. The gut microbiome-ASD connection has been tested in a mouse model of ASD, where the microbiome was mechanistically linked to abnormal metabolites and behavior.
    Similarly, a study of children with ASD found that oral non-absorbable antibiotic treatment improved GI and ASD symptoms, albeit temporarily.
    Here, a small open-label clinical trial evaluated the impact of Microbiota Transfer Therapy (MTT) on gut microbiota composition and GI and ASD symptoms of 18 ASD-diagnosed children.
    Results
    MTT involved a 2-week antibiotic treatment, a bowel cleanse, and then an extended fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) using a high initial dose followed by daily and lower maintenance doses for 7–8 weeks.
    The Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale revealed an approximately 80% reduction of GI symptoms at the end of treatment, including significant improvements in symptoms of constipation, diarrhea, indigestion, and abdominal pain.
    Conclusions
    This exploratory, extended-duration treatment protocol thus appears to be a promising approach to alter the gut microbiome and virome and improve GI and behavioral symptoms of ASD. Improvements in GI symptoms, ASD symptoms, and the microbiome all persisted for at least 8 weeks after treatment ended, suggesting a long-term impact.
    Similarly, clinical assessments showed that behavioral ASD symptoms improved significantly and remained improved 8 weeks after treatment ended. Bacterial and phagedeep sequencing analyses revealed successful partial engraftment of donor microbiota and beneficial changes in the gut envi...
    46 min
  • 300 CoreBrain Journal Diversifies – Parker
    Diversifying Our CoreBrain Journal Message
    Host Commentary: Short take – three serious Upgrades in our CBJ information processing – furthering the mission we’ve worked now for many years.
    * Change: CoreBrain Journal for the near term to publish once per week as noted below. My plan is to seriously move forward once we get help on board and go back to 2-3x/wk publication.
    * The CoreBrain Patreon site is open to considering support for our efforts here, please take a look and see what you think:
    * https://www.patreon.com/corebrain
    * CoreBrain Academy is under intense construction https://www.corebrainacademy.com/ 
    * ADHD101 – 55 lessons + coaching: How to measure, target, & treat brain/biomedical realities  https://www.corebrainacademy.com/adhd-treatment-failure
    * The PM Drop – Minicourse: Learn how to use the most common problems to correct treatment activities & comorbid conditions not initially recognized.
    https://www.corebrainacademy.com/pm-drop
    * Download this PDF for print or email distribution – and/or send out this short link to this PDF on CBA updates: http://corepsych.com/academy
    * – And YouTube | CoreBrain has quietly grown and I need additional help with descriptions and SEO over there – now over 300 videos.
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    Ed Note: Appropo of my editorial comments on the last CBJ post: I will publish a personal CBJ audio note next Tuesday [done] further explaining my plans, and then for the near future will only publish on Thursdays, once a week thereafter – for the duration of my sabbatical – upon connecting with the community for their wishes in these next steps over the next two months.
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