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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L-methylfolate administration and autism: a case report

I should have really titled this post 'another case report' given yesterday's entry on this blog talking about a case of [untre...

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Presenting with the symptoms of autism and then diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU)

The case report from Betül Mazlum and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) illustrates once again that (a) the plural 'autisms...

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Allergy symptoms affecting autistic symptoms?

I have quite a bit of time for  Harumi Jyonouchi on this blog ( see here and see here for example). Not only has Dr Jyonouchi got an eye ...

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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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Acetylcysteine and autism: another case report

I don't want to spend too long on the findings reported by Danielle Stutzman & Julie Dopheide [1] talking about how: " Treatme...

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Transcendental meditation for autism: some case reports

I can appreciate that some people might have looked at the title of this post and rolled their eyes. When I first came across the paper by D...

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