Open label study of probiotics and autism

" We concluded that probiotics have beneficial effects on both behavioral and GI [gastrointestinal]  manifestations of ASD  [autism sp...

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"a leaky gut may play a critical role in the development of age-related inflammation and frailty"

The quote heading this post is taken from the findings reported by Yanfei Qi and colleagues [1] who set out to investigate whether " a...

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Rare genetic condition manifesting as autism and its management

" We report the case of a young boy with nonverbal autism and intellectual disability , with a rare de novo 1q21.3 microdeletion. ...

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Anxiety levels in kids with autism meta-analysed

The results of the meta-analysis published by Francisca van Steensel & Emma Heeman [1] (open-access) on the topic of anxiety levels in ...

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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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Coeliac disease, autism and more

" Compared with the general population, children with celiac disease had a 1.4-fold greater risk of future psychiatric disorders. Child...

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Gluten- and casein-free diets and autism: the Hyman results (at last)

" Although these findings must be interpreted with caution because of the small sample size, the study does not provide evidence to sup...

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MOCOS: a new candidate for autism research

I'll freely admit that until reading the paper by François Féron and colleagues [1] (open-access available here ) I had never heard of ...

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Digestive enzymes and autism

" The ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  group receiving digestive enzyme therapy for 3 months had significant improvement in emotional ...

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Breast milk protects against GI symptoms in high risk autism?

Happy house @ Paul Whiteley " Late weaning and EBM [exclusive breast milk] were associated with protection against GI [gastrointestina...

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Vaccines not associated with autism: a meta-analysis

I'm gonna warn you that this is probably the longest of my ramblings so far covering one of the most controversial topics linked to auti...

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