Caring for the carers continued

Consider this post a brief extension to a previous one talking about how greater efforts need to be put into supporting those raising and ca...

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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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Autism and obstacles to medical diagnosis and treatment

The title of this post reflects the title of the paper by Marcia Datlow Smith and colleagues * which was given to me by Natasa (many thanks)...

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Self-injurious behaviour and autism

Self-injury, auto-aggression, self-mutilation call it what you will, can be a relatively frequent occurrence in children with autism spectru...

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