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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Prevalence of schizophrenia in China up: was Dohan (partially) right?

" The prevalence of schizophrenia in China has more than doubled between 1990 and 2010, with rates being particularly high in the most...

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Is a GFCF diet for autism inherently unhealthy? (part 2)

Consider today's entry as a sort of continuation of a previous post looking at the 'horror' that is a gluten-free, casein-free (...

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Gluten- and casein-free diets and autism: the Hyman results (at last)

" Although these findings must be interpreted with caution because of the small sample size, the study does not provide evidence to sup...

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Does not support an association...

I want to briefly draw your attention to  the paper by Fernando Navarro and colleagues * which concluded: " Our study although underpow...

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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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Functional GI issues and autism: not just an accumulation of case reports?

I've taken my time in posting this entry specifically dedicated to  the paper by Virginia Chaidez and colleagues * which " puts to ...

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