Analysing police involvement in the context of autism

" About 1 in 6 people with autism interacted with police over 18 months " went one of the media headlines covering the study publi...

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The extra-intestinal effects of coeliac disease autoimmunity?

" In 3.5-year-old children, CDA [ coeliac disease autoimmunity]  is associated with increased reports of child depression and anxiety,...

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School and autism: anxiety, aggression and making things easier

Today's post is a bit of a mash-up insofar as including two papers into (brief) discussions. The first paper is from Pamela Gaye Ambler ...

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Sibling death by defenestration: a case report

The case report published by Osman Sabuncuoglu and colleagues [1] (open-access) highlighting the extremes of certain high-risk behaviours p...

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Drug-refractory aggression and SIB

At the time of writing this post, the media is awash with two stories with an autism research slant to them. So we have the paper by Brian D...

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