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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Inflammatory bowel disease and autism: increased prevalence

A quote to begin today's post: " Across each population with different kinds of ascertainment, there was a consistent and statistic...

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Evidence for an autoimmune aetiology of epilepsy?

With a title like that, I was bound to post about the paper by Mei-Sing Ong and colleagues  [1] and their suggestion that: " Epilepsy a...

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As if you needed telling...

" GI [gastrointestinal]  dysfunction was prevalent in this cohort of children with ASD  [autism spectrum disorders] , observations cons...

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Neurology of inflammatory bowel diseases

The paper by Ben-Or and colleagues [1] talking about a neurologic profile present in a small participant cohort of children and adolescents...

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New life for naltrexone and autism?

During the very earliest days of the life of this blog I posted about the opiate antagonist naltrexone (ReVia®) and some research on its hi...

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Pain predicting sleep problems in autism

Not so long ago I talked about the paper from Smith and colleagues  [1] on autism and obstacles to medical [comorbidity] diagnosis and treat...

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