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3 Vitamin B6 (and Magnesium) in the Treatment of Autism All 18
studies known to me in which vitamin B6 has been evaluated as a
treatment for autistic children have provided positive results.
This is a rather remarkable record, since the many drugs that
have been evaluated as treatments for autism have produced very
inconsistent results. If a drug shows positive results in about
half of the evaluation studies, it is considered a success and
the drug is then advocated for use with autistic patients.
However, despite the remarkably consistent findings in the
research on the use of vitamin B6 in the treatment of autism,
and despite its being immeasurably safer than any of the drugs
used for autistic children, there are at present very few
practitioners who use it or advocate its use in the treatment of
autism. Research on the use of vitamin B6 with autistic children
began in the 1960s. In 1966 two British neurologists, A. F.
Heeley and G. E. Roberts,