Rare genetic condition manifesting as autism and its management

" We report the case of a young boy with nonverbal autism and intellectual disability , with a rare de novo 1q21.3 microdeletion. ...

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Pattern-related visual stress in ME/CFS

At the time of writing this post, important discussions about ME ( myalgic encephalomyelitis ) and/or CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) are com...

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Vision impairment and ADHD?

Science often has the ability to surprise. So it was when I first read the paper by Dawn Decarlo and colleagues * (open-access here ) which ...

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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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Marfan syndrome life expectancy

When we talk about Marfan syndrome should really talk about Marfan syndrome life expectancy because it is a disease that undiagnosed, timel...

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Coeliac disease and cataracts?

Given that one of the more consistent interests on this blog is related to the gut and the various gastrointestinal (GI) co-morbidities that...

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