"a gluten-related subgroup of schizophrenia"?

A quote to begin this post: " this preliminary study demonstrates that altered AGDA  [antibodies against gliadin-derived antigen]  leve...

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Cytomegalovirus and autism

Today I'm talking on the topic of cytomegalovirus infection and autism following the  paper by Sakamoto and colleagues [1] and their co...

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Vaccines not associated with autism: a meta-analysis

I'm gonna warn you that this is probably the longest of my ramblings so far covering one of the most controversial topics linked to auti...

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Paediatric autoimmune enteropathy: I did not know that

Consider this post one of my 'other musings' entries on this blog and also a slightly more descriptive post than usual. The source p...

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Anti-brain antibodies and behavioural profiles of autism

Anti-brain antibodies have been quite a recurrent theme in autism research circles over the past few years. I've covered research in th...

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Gastrointestinal inflammation and immune activation in bipolar disorder

I want to take you back to a post I published back in April 2012 ( see here ) on some very interesting work coming out of the Stanley Divisi...

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Sensitizing to gluten?

Actually the title to this post should really read 'sensitising' rather than 'sensitizing' as a function of my Limey status...

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