Fatty acids and autism meta-analysed yet again (with a different result?)

OK I'm a little confused right now. Not so long ago I talked about the paper from Horvath and colleagues [1] ( see here ) concluding th...

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Mitochondria support for mitochondrial activity in [some] autism

" This study examined the effect of common mitochondrial treatments on specific mitochondrial components in a group of children diagnos...

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Fatty acid chemistry and autism

" Fatty acids in both serum and red blood cells were abnormal among this small group of Canadian children with autism compared to contr...

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Fish oils preventing psychosis: long-term effects?

" This is the first study to show, to the best of our knowledge, that a 12-week intervention with omega-3 PUFAs  [ polyunsaturated fatt...

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Blood biomarkers and suicide

Science can be a pretty cold thing. Take for example some of the discussions on  the recent paper by Helen Le-Niculescu and colleagues * (o...

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Fatty acids and reading ability

Although now only available to subscribers, a short while back I was very peripherally involved in helping to write an article on the scienc...

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Coughs and sneezes and omega-3 fatty acids

A quick post on this cold and rainy Saturday evening. Our summer weather here in the North-East of England has vanished it seems, although ...

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