"there is no single way for a brain to be normal" (or how 'neurotypical' is a nonsense)

I'm not usually so forthright with my posts on this blog, but today I'm being a little more bullish as I talk about an editorial fro...

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Exercise as medicine by diagnostic label

I consider the paper by Pedersen & Saltin [1] ( open-access available here ) to be pretty good scientific value insofar as their provid...

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Cochrane does chelation for autism

Cochrane, in the title of this post, refers to the Cochrane Collaboration  and the sterling work done throughout health care synthesising pe...

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Vitamin D and depression / depressive symptoms

I promise you that I'm not getting too obsessed with the sunshine vitamin/hormone that is vitamin D despite chatter about it appearing ...

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Gluten sensitivity and psychiatry reviewed

It's Coeliac Awareness Week here in the UK ( see here ) from 12-18 May 2014. With the rate of coeliac (celiac) disease going up accordin...

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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already

The title for this post comes from a quote in George Orwell's  Nineteen Eighty-Four . I'm using it to plug the fact that as from tod...

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Gluten exposure and "feelings of depression"?

Could exposure to dietary gluten affect a person's moods or emotional state? Well, if the paper by Simone Peters and colleagues [1] (op...

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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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NICE Quality Standard on Autism published

A very short post to bring to your attention the publication of the Quality Standard on Autism ( see here ) from NICE (the National Institut...

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use and autism

I want to talk today about the paper by Roger Akins and colleagues  [1] and their finding that: " Use of CAM [Complementary and Altern...

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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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