Autism and phenylketonuria: a double syndrome

I want to briefly talk about the letter to the editor from Esra Demirci [1] (open-access) today and a continuation of some rather important...

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Presenting with the symptoms of autism and then diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU)

The case report from Betül Mazlum and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) illustrates once again that (a) the plural 'autisms...

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Phenylalanine and schizophrenia: new directions for intervention?

As regular readers might already have noticed, amino acids are a bit of a obsession of mine on this blog. Out of all of them - and there ar...

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BH4 for autism?

I've talked about tetrahydrobiopterin (sapropterin or BH4) a few times on this blog with reference to autism (see here and here ) and ...

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How do ketogenic diets work?

Perhaps I have said it before and please excuse me if I am repeating myself, the influence of diet on both our physical and mental health is...

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Heroes, mutations and diversity

What is your first thought when you see or hear the word ' mutation '? Does it invoke a positive or negative image? Does it suggest ...

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PKU: Food can affect mental health

Despite the seemingly daily helping of new research and opinion suggesting that what we eat can influence our mental as well as physical he...

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