Early pregnancy vitamin D levels and later offspring 'behavioral difficulties'?

Drawing on data derived from the  Rhea mother-child cohort based in Crete, Greece, the findings reported by Vasiliki Daraki and colleagues ...

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Another double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of vitamin D in autism. But...

The findings reported by Conor Kerley and colleagues [1] continue a theme in autism research circles of ' one study reporting one thing...

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Vitamin D deficiency is rife in an in-patient psychiatric unit for young people

" Adolescents within tier 4 adolescent mental health services may be at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency and so assessment of vita...

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Autism, pregnancy maternal immune activation and vitamin D?

Today's post is a bit of a mash-up, drawing on two articles quite recently published in the peer-reviewed science domain. The first is b...

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Fatty acids and autism meta-analysed yet again (with a different result?)

OK I'm a little confused right now. Not so long ago I talked about the paper from Horvath and colleagues [1] ( see here ) concluding th...

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Herbal medicines 'for' ADHD systematically reviewed

The paper by Dennis Anheyer and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) is offered up for your reading consumption today, and the res...

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Vitamin D halting colds and flu?

" Overall, the study said one person would be spared infection for every 33 taking vitamin D supplements. That is more effective than ...

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Iodine and autism (again)

Welcome back to Questioning Answers in 2016. Let's continue our travels down the autism peer-reviewed research path by starting with som...

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Vitamin D levels and autism meta-analysed

A quote to begin: " Levels of serum 25(OH) D in participants with ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  were significantly lower than contr...

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Autism, luteolin and inflammatory markers

" We further show that the children with ASDs  [autism spectrum disorders]  in which the elevated serum IL-6 and TNF levels decreased...

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Vitamin D fortified mozzarella topped pizzas. Yum!

A slightly more light-hearted but nevertheless important post for you today as I bring to your attention the paper by Banaz Al-Khalidi and c...

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Fatty acids and reading ability

Although now only available to subscribers, a short while back I was very peripherally involved in helping to write an article on the scienc...

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