MOCOS: a new candidate for autism research

I'll freely admit that until reading the paper by François Féron and colleagues [1] (open-access available here ) I had never heard of ...

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Methylphenidate: a repairer of the 'oxidative balance' in ADHD?

A fairly quick post for you today based on the findings reported by Esra Guney and colleagues [1] who examined whether markers of oxidative...

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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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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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Autism, gut problems and oxidative stress

I'm still a rank amateur when it comes to talking about many aspects of autism research. Mitochondrial dysfunction remains a particularl...

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Cup of green tea anyone?

Whilst the recent riots witnessed on the streets of London and other English cities are making all the headlines at the moment, normal Brit...

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