ADHD and law enforcement contact: not a straight-forward relationship

Several times on this blog I've talked about how a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)  seems to place the reci...

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"a potential link between serious delinquency and later schizophrenia"

I was rather intrigued by the results reported by Nina Lindberg and colleagues [1] in their study designed to " investigate if serious...

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'Vulnerability' to radicalisation and autism or autistic traits: tread carefully

I was more than a little hesitant to post this entry given the sensitivity of the material it covers. I opted to publish this post because p...

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Conviction for violence and autism: comorbidity counts

I tread carefully when discussing the results published by Ragini Heeramun and colleagues [1] on the topic of " whether autism is asso...

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People commit crimes not their clinical labels

" Oregon Killer’s Mother Wrote of Troubled Son and Gun Rights " and " The Myth of the ‘Autistic Shooter’ ". Those were j...

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