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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Oxytocin moving on: ADHD and inattentiveness

Dare I mention the term 'cuddle hormone' when it comes to oxytocin ? Well, according to a recent news piece in Nature  ( see here ),...

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More bumetanide and autism discussion

For those with their ear to the autism research ground, the paper by Roman Tyzio and colleagues  [1] must have sounded like a freight train ...

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Induced labour, maternal thyroid hormone and autism

The BBC TV program 'The Nine Months That Made You'  was a particularly interesting eye-opener for me. Not only did it introduce the ...

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Cuddle me oxytocin

Without wishing to sound like I have had one beer to many, if this blog was an ice-cream I would generally liken it to a neapolitan . The re...

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