"a potential link between serious delinquency and later schizophrenia"

I was rather intrigued by the results reported by Nina Lindberg and colleagues [1] in their study designed to " investigate if serious...

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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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"Relatives of individuals with ASD were at higher risk of ADHD"

" Individuals with ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  and their relatives are at increased risk of ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivit...

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1 in 5 children "met criteria for low language at 7 years"

Although primarily looking at the potential predictors of language outcome, the study results published by Cristina McKean and colleagues [...

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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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Views on autism from an "unaffected sibling"

It was a bit of a breath of fresh air to read the paper by Lauren Singer [1] (open-access) published in the journal Molecular Autism  recen...

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