Second seizure risk and "idiopathic autism"

Idiopathic autism refers to instances where autism is the primary diagnosis and not something secondary to another - usually genetic - condi...

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Cannabidiol for drug-resistant seizures in Dravet syndrome

" Cannabis drug cuts seizures in children with severe epilepsy in trial " went one of the headlines referencing the results publis...

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Cerebral palsy and autism continued

" Our findings support the need for a multidisciplinary approach to management of children with CP  [ cerebral palsy ]  to adequately i...

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EEG abnormalities and "high functioning" autism

I'm not a great fan of the term 'functioning' when it comes to autism ( see here ) hence the quote marks around high-functioning...

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Autism, ageing and comorbidity

I'm not spending too much time today on the findings published by Elizabeth Wise and colleagues [1] but did want to bring them to your ...

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Sex and age might affect comorbidity profiles in autism

The paper by Supekar and colleagues [1] provides some food for thought today specifically with the idea that comorbidity profiles accompany...

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"Autoimmune epilepsy is an underrecognized condition..."

" Among adult patients with epilepsy of unknown etiology, a significant minority had detectable serum Abs  [ autoantibodies ]  suggest...

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Somatic mutation and neurological traits. Part II. Relevant Somatic Mutation discovered?

T he first installment of this brief series discussed some possible manifestations of somatic mutation in helping to account for the biology...

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Somatic mutation and neurological traits. Part I. Background and Epilepsy

E pilepsies are disorders of cascades of uncontrolled neural firings.  Local or large parts of the brain can be involved in seizures, and th...

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The ties that bind? Comorbidity and autism (again)

" It was found that 92.9% of participants presented with a family history of autoimmune disease. " That was one of the headline fi...

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Health service use, autism and preventative medicine

Appreciating that the title of this post potentially offers the opportunity to write a long (very long) post, today I'm specifically foc...

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The ketogenic diet and autism: where are we up to?

Today I'm bringing the paper by Kamila Castro and colleagues [1] to the blogging table and their systematic review of the available pee...

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Medical comorbidity and adult autism (again)

Regular readers are probably tired of reading blog titles like the one for today on this site. It's not as if the idea that a diagnosis ...

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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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