On the under-studied populations within the autism spectrum

I don't typically post on a Sunday, but given that today - 2nd April - is World Autism Awareness Day  I've decided to make an except...

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Subgroups in autism (without intellectual disability)

" Children with ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  without ID  [ intellectual disability ]  could be differentiated into Moderate and Sev...

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Immune endophenotypes in paediatric autism

Today I'm serving up  the paper by Milo Careaga and colleagues [1] for your blogging delight, who concluded that: " Children with ...

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Evidence for an autoimmune aetiology of epilepsy?

With a title like that, I was bound to post about the paper by Mei-Sing Ong and colleagues  [1] and their suggestion that: " Epilepsy a...

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Regression and autism continued (yet again)

I noticed a few weeks back that the topic of regression - developmental regression - with autism in mind resurfaced during a few media repo...

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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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Asthma as a risk factor for autism?

I start with a quote from the paper by Po-Hsin Tsai and colleagues  [1]: " This prospective study indicated a temporal relation betwee...

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