People commit crimes not their clinical labels

" Oregon Killer’s Mother Wrote of Troubled Son and Gun Rights " and " The Myth of the ‘Autistic Shooter’ ". Those were j...

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Patients with psychiatric disorders who request euthanasia

I'll freely admit that the paper by Lieve Thienpont and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) made me feel rather uncomfortable...

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Optimal outcome and the autism spectrum: implications for the risk of psychiatric comorbidity?

" The minority of the AS  [Asperger syndrome]  group who no longer met criteria for a full diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder wer...

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Synaesthesia prevalent in autism?

The BBC headline ' Study links synaesthesia to autism ' recently caught my eye (and nose!) discussing the paper by Baron-Cohen and c...

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Not lying, I am puzzled

I am puzzled by this story which has appeared in the UK Daily Mail on-line. Puzzled because the article about sperm donation by a man purpo...

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Hikikomori: the birth of a psychiatric condition?

A friend of mine* sent me this link a few days back. Hikikomori is a Japanese term describing when people withdraw from social life, seek ...

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Coffee does not always mean coffee

The title of this post is based on  an episode of Seinfeld . I wasn't a huge Seinfeld fan but happily bumped into the odd episode late n...

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