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   [1]http://io9.com/349956/one-pill-makes-you-autistic-++-and-one-pill-c
   hanges-you-back

[2]One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And One Pill Changes You Back

    Need to finish that work project, and wish you had the mental
   intensity to do it? Just take a synapse-regulating inhibitor, induce
   temporary autism, and you'll want to ignore your friends and do
   nothing but number-crunching for days. Autism-inducers could become as
   popular as Provigil among the geek set by 2020. Last night, in fact, a
   group German researchers announced they'd perfected the method for
   inducing autism. (They can also cure it.)

   Over the past year, researchers have demonstrated several times that
   they can turn mice autistic by messing with brain chemistry -- and
   then "cure" them using the same techniques. The discoveries could lead
   to a scenario similar to the one in Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in
   the Sky, where people are given a brain treatment called "focusing"
   that essentially turns them autistic and makes them obsessive,
   detail-oriented workers.

   It might also lead to recreational autism, where people who want to
   take a break from having messy emotions about other people decide to
   unplug and enter a state where human relationships are no more
   important than inanimate objects.

   Read about how scientists can [3]induce autism [PNAS] and how they can
   [4]cure it [BBC News].

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   1. http://io9.com/349956/one-pill-makes-you-autistic-++-and-one-pill-changes-you-back
   2. http://io9.com/349956/one-pill-makes-you-autistic-++-and-one-pill-changes-you-back
   3. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0711555105v1
   4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6245742.stm
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