{"id":147486,"date":"2021-11-18T20:32:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=147486"},"modified":"2021-11-18T20:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:02:52","slug":"indian-researchers-develop-better-therapeutics-to-treat-autism-spectrum-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-researchers-develop-better-therapeutics-to-treat-autism-spectrum-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian researchers develop better therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A group of Indian researchers have developed a compound called \u201c6BIO\u201d that can provide a better method to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Autism spectrum disorder is <\/span><b>a condition related to brain development that impacts how a person perceives and\u00a0socialises\u00a0with others<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, causing problems in social interaction and communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People with autism also often have <strong>co-occurring conditions,<\/strong> including epilepsy, depression, anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder<\/p>\n<p><b>Causes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Available scientific evidence suggests that there are probably many factors that make a child more likely to have an ASD, including environmental and ge<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">netic factors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Symptoms: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early signs of this disorder can be noticed before a child reaches one year of age. However, symptoms typically become more consistently visible by the time a child is 2 or 3 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cases Worldwide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t is estimated that worldwide about one in 160 children has an ASD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the current treatment for <\/b><b>Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current therapeutics to treat ASD aim to alleviate symptoms such as epileptic seizures or sleep issues but not to treat the multiple problems of ASD.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What have the Indian Researchers developed to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian researchers have developed a compound called \u201c6BIO\u201d that can provide a better method to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This compound has the potential for improving daily activities like learning and recollecting new tasks in patients with ASD\/ Intellectual disability (ID).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 has increased the types of disabilities from 7 to 21. It has added autism spectrum disorder as one of the disabilities which was largely ignored in earlier Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<b> \u201c<\/b><b>Indian researchers develop better therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b>published in<b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 17th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? A group of Indian researchers have developed a compound called \u201c6BIO\u201d that can provide a better method to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).\u00a0 What is Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD)? Autism spectrum disorder is a condition related to brain development that impacts how a person perceives and\u00a0socialises\u00a0with others, causing problems in social interaction&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-researchers-develop-better-therapeutics-to-treat-autism-spectrum-disorder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian researchers develop better therapeutics to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704784941},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}