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  1. I wonder if medications targeting the CGRP affective pain pathway could help ease fear, avoidance, and hypervigilance in neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.

    Read here: sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

    #NeurodevelopmentalDisorders
    #Autism
    #PTSD

  2. "When human #HARs —segments of #humanDNA that evolved much faster than expected— were introduced into #chimpneurons, they also grew more projections, suggesting a direct link between HARs and neural #complexity. However, these same genetic changes may also contribute to #neurodevelopmentaldisorders like #autism, highlighting the delicate balance of human brain evolution."

    neurosciencenews.com/genetics-

  3. Salon: "AI #nurses" as "good as any doctor": #RFKJr. confirms he wants to take away people's #healthcare
    He argued that people on food assistance should have their options reduced so they can't buy processed foods. #snap
    ...but it does creates an excuse to deny health care by claiming that they made themselves sick

    His view that sick people did it to themselves and deserve what's coming to them offers a nifty justification for Republicans' long-standing desire to deny health care to millions of Americans. Kennedy may dress this up as "prevention" or concern for children, but the message came through loud and clear: Medical patients are parasites who suck up resources from better, more responsible people
    Instead, Kennedy blamed "chronic disease," a vague category that encompasses a cornucopia of ailments like "#autoimmunediseases, #neurodevelopmentaldisorders, #asthma, #Alzheimer’s, #ADHD, #depression, #addiction" and, with special emphasis, #diabetes. I'll leave it to the experts and fact-checkers to explain how badly he misrepresented the diverse causes of these conditions. What matters here is the rhetorical purpose "#chronicdisease" plays: Blaming the victims, and creating the pretext for taking their health care away.

    Under prolonged badgering, Kennedy all but admitted he thinks care should be denied if your past behavior wasn't "healthy" enough. "Free speech doesn't cost anybody anything, but in health care, if you smoke cigarettes for 20 years and you get cancer you are now taking from the pool. Are you guaranteed the same right?" Kennedy snapped at Sanders

    But this must be seen in the larger context of Kennedy's constant refrain: Most illnesses are a result of what people eat, so almost any health problem can be blamed on "personal choices," especially when you're as divorced from scientific facts as Kennedy is.

    salon.com/2025/01/30/ai-nurses