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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Acetylcysteine and autism: another case report

I don't want to spend too long on the findings reported by Danielle Stutzman & Julie Dopheide [1] talking about how: " Treatme...

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Brain glutathione and "ASD in intellectually able adult men"

A quote to start: " [1H]MRS [ proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ]  measures of cortical and subcortical GSH  [ glutathione ]  are ...

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Homocysteine and autism: yet more...

It's been a while since I've discussed the issue of homocysteine - that's homocysteine not homocystine - with autism in mind, ...

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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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Toxic metal accumulation and autism?

To quote from the recent paper by Altaf Alabdali and colleagues [1] (open-access) " This study confirms earlier studies that implicate...

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Oxidative stress inducing mitochondrial dysfunction in autism?

Consider this post a sort of accompaniment to my recent chatter about the paper by Suzanne Goh and colleagues on brain lactate levels and mi...

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Vitamin D and autism: a continuing saga

The "sunshine vitamin" that is vitamin D has cropped up quite a few times on this blog for all manner of reasons. The suggestion ...

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Environmental toxicants and autism reviewed

So: " The findings of this review suggest that the etiology of ASD [autism spectrum disorder]  may involve, at least in a subset of chi...

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Methylcobalamin and folinic acid for autism? Hold it right there...

The title of this post should also have included the word 'glutathione' too based on the results reported by Richard Frye and collea...

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NAC for autism: a case study

NAC or N-acetlycysteine has appeared a couple of times on this blog in relation to both autism ( see here ) and schizophrenia ( see here )....

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