"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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Reducing depression scores (in IBS) using a probiotic?

" Probiotics can reduce symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) , but little is known about their effects on psychiatric comorbidit...

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Social interaction and autism: it takes two to tango

Psychology experiments are not generally fodder for this blog when it comes to autism. The main reason being that quite a few appearing in t...

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What will happen to my child when I'm gone?

From time to time I cover some uncomfortable topics on this blog as a function of what hand the autism research cards deal. Today is another...

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It's not just about psych studies; it's about core aspects of inference.

A   paper just published in Science by the "Open Science Collaboration" reports the results of a multi-year multi-institution ef...

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Incontinence and paediatric autism

Urinary incontinence - " the unintentional passing of urine " - is a fairly common issue affecting millions of people of all ages ...

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Mind-body exercise and self-control in autism?

Despite knowing a little something about the discipline of psychology and in particular, it's varied success/failure (delete as appropri...

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