The PANDAS hypothesis is supported

PANDAS -  pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection - is, as the name suggests, a condition /...

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Neuropsychiatric disorder onset "temporally related to prior vaccinations"?

" Given the modest magnitude of these findings in contrast to the clear public health benefits of the timely administration of vaccine...

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OCD and autism continued

The paper by Sandra Meier and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) is served up for your reading delight today and some continued ...

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Subthreshold autism signs in childhood OCD

OCD in the title of this post, refers to obsessive compulsive disorder  and the intriguing observation  put forward by Arildskov and colleag...

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Autism, gastrointestinal disorders and comorbidity clusters

I start this post with a few important observations. Please feel free to disagree with me (as long as you can provide peer-reviewed evidence...

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