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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A high index of suspicion for mitochondrial disease in autism?

The paper by Bradley Brown & Theodore Rais [1] (open-access available here ) lies at the centre of today's brief musings and yet an...

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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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Self-injurious behaviour and autism

Self-injury, auto-aggression, self-mutilation call it what you will, can be a relatively frequent occurrence in children with autism spectru...

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