Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Autism Spectrum Disorders
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 10956
Special Issue Editors
2. Autism Research and Treatment Center, King Saud University, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia
Interests: autism; biomarkers; nutrition; herbal medicine; neuroinflammation; oxidative stress
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Dear Colleagues,
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a group of syndromes characterized by neurodevelopmental problems with common features that can manifest together or separately. These include, among other things, communication difficulties due to language failure, inability to employ imagination to deal with symbolic games, difficulty socializing, and repetitive behavioral patterns. The term "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) refers to a variety of healthcare and medical systems, procedures, and supplies that are not currently regarded as belonging to conventional medicine. Despite their popularity, the use of CAMs in ASD remains contentious; however, more methodologically sound trials have been planned and implemented to examine the efficacy of various CAM therapies, and information about CAMs is shifting from unreliable to scientific. Unfortunately, there is an inadequacy of data on the effectiveness of CAM in ASD. The existing increase in the prevalence of ASD and the absence of effective pharmaceutical treatment has resulted in a plethora of CAMs as hot points of research.
This Special Issue on “Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Autism Spectrum Disorders” aims to cover recent advances in the use of different approaches of CAM in treating ASD. Topics include, but are not limited to, methods and/or applications in the following areas:
- Biomarker-directed strategies to use CAM in ASD
- Dietary intervention in treating ASD
- Auditory integration therapy
- Herbal medicine as promising intervention strategy
- Probiotics as non-invasive CAM in ASD
- Flavonoid-rich diet as CAM to treat ASD
- Phytochelators and treatment of heavy metal toxicity in ASD
Prof. Dr. Afaf K. El-Ansary
Dr. Mona Awad Alonazi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autism spectrum disorders
- complementary and alternative medicine
- biomarkers
- nutrition
- herbal medicine
- probiotics
- phytochelators
- antioxidants
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