Toxoplasma infection may be a risk factor for manifestation of psychotic-like symptoms

It's been a while since I last talked about  Toxoplasma gondii on this blog ( see here ). All the initial research excitement from a fe...

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On vaccinated and un-vaccinated homeschooled children: the disappearing-reappearing-disappearing-reappearing studies

I originally began writing this post in the last week of November 2016 following first sight of the study abstract by Anthony Mawson and col...

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When grandmothers smoked during pregnancy...

Please, do not smoke during pregnancy ALSPAC - the  Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - continues to give in research terms a...

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Who'd have thunk it: physical activity inversely associated with BMI and body fat percentage

" In this sample of middle-aged adults, drawn from the general population, physical activity was inversely associated with BMI  [ body ...

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ALSPAC says no to cat ownership - psychosis risk hypothesis but...

" While pregnant women should continue to avoid handling soiled cat litter, given possible T. gondii exposure, our study strongly indi...

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Even more vitamin D - depression study results...

I'm starting to sound like a broken record (those 'plastic circle things that used to play music' for the younger crowd) when i...

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ADHD and asthma (yet again)

" Children with ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ]  have a higher prevalence of asthma than the general Quebec pediatr...

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