Differentiation: Autism spectrum—Asperger—ADHD: Lithium and lanthanides as keys to the inner world of autistic children.
Disorders from the autism spectrum are differentiated and the similarities with the characteristic remedy profiles of lithium and the lanthanides, in particular lanthanum and cerium, are presented. The authors demonstrate the clinical relevance of this similarity with two exemplary cases of Asperger syndrome.
KEYWORDS: Autism spectrum, Asperger, ADHD, reading and spelling disorder, lanthanides, lithium