Including the "full intellectual range" in autism vision research

The paper by Alyse Brown and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) is probably not going to gain any significant media headlines (u...

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Chronic fatigue syndrome, headaches and intracranial hypertension

Of the many important lessons that I've learned down the years of research, perhaps the most important one is that grand over-arching di...

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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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Pain predicting sleep problems in autism

Not so long ago I talked about the paper from Smith and colleagues  [1] on autism and obstacles to medical [comorbidity] diagnosis and treat...

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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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What we see is too often determined by what we expect to see

How we see is determined by a complex system of interacting eye parts, photoreceptors and brain functions, but what we see can be determined...

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