Forgive me if this is already covered -- I did search for
"autism" in the Antibiotics forum and got zero results. So, this
may be very interesting news... UCR Researchers Propose
Minocycline as a Promising Drug for Patients with Fragile X
Syndrome RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A UC Riverside-led team of
biomedical scientists has found that a readily available drug
called minocycline, used widely to treat acne and skin
infections, can be used to treat Fragile X syndrome, the most
common inherited cause of mental impairment and the most common
cause of autism. The study’s findings have already impacted
future therapies, with the approval of a new clinical trial in
Toronto, Canada, that will test minocycline in patients with
Fragile X. Neurons in the brain communicate with each other at
specialized contact sites called synapses, with many of these
synapses occurring on small mushroom-shaped structures called
dendritic spines. During early development dendritic spines have
immature finger-like shapes. But learning stabiliz