Risperidone administration affects homocysteine levels in first episode schizophrenia

Of the many themes that seem to quite consistently surface on this blog looking at the peer-reviewed science in relation to various behaviou...

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One more time folks... pregnancy folate and autism risk

Folate yet again on this blog ? Sorry but that's just how the peer-reviewed papers have fallen... " Maternal folate supplementatio...

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Folate-dependent one carbon metabolism and transsulfuration pathways: biomarkers for autism?

I found it a little unusual that the findings reported by Daniel Howsmon and colleagues [1] (open-access) talking about " multivariate...

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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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Maternal folate status and offspring autism risk: where are we up to?

I'd like to briefly draw your attention to the review published by Elizabeth DeVilbiss and colleagues [1] today, covering " what i...

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Dad's obesity and risk of offspring autism

In this post I'm talking about  the paper by Pål Surén and colleagues [1] (open-access here ) and their suggestion that " paternal...

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