[Objective] exposure to flame retardants and social behaviours

Although a few details of the study reported by Shannon Lipscomb and colleagues [1] (open-access) interested me, I was particularly taken b...

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Environmental exposure and autism continued

In a post not-so-long-ago I talked about the paper by Andrey Rzhetsky and colleagues [1] and their assertion that environment (various fac...

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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and autism

The beautiful game of football (soccer) is a bit of national obsession here in the UK. In the bracing North-East of England, we have a parti...

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