Rare genetic condition manifesting as autism and its management

" We report the case of a young boy with nonverbal autism and intellectual disability , with a rare de novo 1q21.3 microdeletion. ...

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"Predisposition" to autoimmunity and inflammatory activation linked to autistic regression?

The paper by Ori Scott and colleagues [1] provides some very welcome interest in the concept of regression in relation to autism. As I'...

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Say my name

" At 9 months of age, infants developing ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  were more likely to fail to orient to their names, persisting...

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Early intervention before autism diagnosis

Santa is approaching so I don't want to keep you too long today. I just thought you might want to briefly cast your eye over the paper ...

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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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Autism secondary to enterovirus encephalitis

" We describe a 32-month-old patient with enteroviral encephalitis confirmed by polymerase chain reaction in cerebrospinal fluid, with...

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The potential impact of DSM-V on autism numbers

I don't really want to get too bogged down with the various discussions which have passed to-and-fro when it came to the expected impact...

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Autism and the [changing] preschool developmental profile

I'd like to begin with a quote from the paper by Hedvall and colleagues * who reported findings based on a study of developmental trajec...

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