Going long: examining psychiatric comorbidity in PDD-NOS

" Psychiatric comorbidities in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are rather a rule than an exception. " That was the op...

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Of vaccines and monkeys

A quote to begin: " These data indicate that administration of TCVs  [ thimerosal -containing vaccines]  and/or the MMR  [measles, mump...

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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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Optimal outcome (and autism) by any other name

In my annual review of all things autism research covered on this blog, the accolade of paper of the year for 2013 went to [drum roll maest...

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