"Predisposition" to autoimmunity and inflammatory activation linked to autistic regression?

The paper by Ori Scott and colleagues [1] provides some very welcome interest in the concept of regression in relation to autism. As I'...

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Autoimmune disease(s) and ADHD: birds of a feather?

" A personal history and a maternal history of autoimmune disease were associated with an increased risk of ADHD  [ attention-deficit ...

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Obesity and diabetes: Actual epigenetics or just IVF?

This press release that appeared in my newsfeed titled " You are what your parents ate! " caught my eye because I'm a new mom ...

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Maternal diagnosis of PCOS increases the risk of offspring autism?

" We found that maternal diagnosis of PCOS  [ polycystic ovary syndrome ]  increased the risk of ASD  [autism spectrum disorder] , even...

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Evidence for an autoimmune aetiology of epilepsy?

With a title like that, I was bound to post about the paper by Mei-Sing Ong and colleagues  [1] and their suggestion that: " Epilepsy a...

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Maternal diabetes and offspring autism risk

The systematic review and meta-analysis reported by Xu and colleagues * caught my eye recently. Concluding that: " maternal diabetes wa...

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Fruit and diabetes - a cocktail of results

Do you remember how much fresh fruit you ate last year?  Or, ok, in the last three months?  Or even last week?  What about differentiating b...

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