Caring for the carers continued

Consider this post a brief extension to a previous one talking about how greater efforts need to be put into supporting those raising and ca...

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Autism and anxiety disorder: zooming in on the details

Although it is not necessarily new news that (a) autism rarely exists in some sort of diagnostic vacuum , and (b) that some of the comorbidi...

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Fatigue in adults with a 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

The genetic condition called  22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) has, on occasion, provided some research fodder for this blog ( see her...

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Symptom profiles of chronic fatigue syndrome across borders

To quote from the paper by Maria Zdunek and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ): " These findings suggest that there may be ...

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Societal inclusion and adult autism

" Participating in society was identified as the only factor predicting life satisfaction in individuals with ASD  [autism spectrum dis...

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Social Anxiety Disorder and autism (again)

So: " A large subset (50 %) of the adults with ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  met diagnostic criteria for SAD  [ social anxiety disor...

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Health-related quality of life in CFS/ME

Hvidberg et al (2015) PLoS One. e0132421 Two papers are served up for your reading today. Both provide stark peer-reviewed evidence that whe...

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Drug-refractory aggression and SIB

At the time of writing this post, the media is awash with two stories with an autism research slant to them. So we have the paper by Brian D...

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NICE Quality Standard on Autism published

A very short post to bring to your attention the publication of the Quality Standard on Autism ( see here ) from NICE (the National Institut...

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Anxiety disorder comorbid to autism

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a diagnosis of autism (or autism spectrum disorder ) is seemingly protective of nothing w...

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