{"id":304,"date":"2014-02-18T11:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalnext.me\/nccblog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:22:06","slug":"early-tests-show-potential-autism-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/early-tests-show-potential-autism-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Early tests show the potential of Autism Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autism spectrum disorder is thought to affect around 1% of children.<!--more--> It ranges from mild to severe and symptoms include social problems, delayed language and repetitive movements such as hand tapping.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is no cure for the condition, Autism is mainly treated with specialist education, speech and behavioural therapies.<\/p>\n<p>However a new drug which is currently being tested in the US by the National Institute of Health has found that symptoms of the condition were found to be reduced in mice.<\/p>\n<p>The results to these tests showed an increase in social skills and less repetitive behaviour in animals that were taking the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The findings from initial tests of this medicine are extremely positive although potential medication for use in humans is still years away.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about this diverse condition, NCC Home Learning offer a home study Autism Awareness course that is ideal for those simply with an interest in the subject or families and professionals who may work with individuals living with autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autism spectrum disorder is thought to affect around 1% of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/featured-image-test-1.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Nick Cooper","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/author\/nccnickcooper\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}