'Vulnerability' to radicalisation and autism or autistic traits: tread carefully

I was more than a little hesitant to post this entry given the sensitivity of the material it covers. I opted to publish this post because p...

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The ADOS-2, autism and "complex psychiatric conditions"

The findings reported by Brenna Maddox and colleagues [1] caught my eye recently and the specific finding that: " The ADOS-2 accuratel...

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Risperidone administration affects homocysteine levels in first episode schizophrenia

Of the many themes that seem to quite consistently surface on this blog looking at the peer-reviewed science in relation to various behaviou...

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Healthcare use before, during and after a diagnosis of CFS/ME

" Adults and children with CFS/ME [ chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis ]  have greater health care needs than the res...

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Normal Radiological Appearance After Endoscopic Treatment of Zenker's Diverticulum (ESD)

Patient's who suffer from Zenker's Diverticulum report significant difficulty in swallowing , food regurgitation, aspiration, noisy...

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Chronic fatigue syndrome, headaches and intracranial hypertension

Of the many important lessons that I've learned down the years of research, perhaps the most important one is that grand over-arching di...

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Autism symptoms in children with ADHD

" Children with ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ]  had more ASD [autism spectrum disorder] symptoms than non-ADHD con...

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Views on autism from an "unaffected sibling"

It was a bit of a breath of fresh air to read the paper by Lauren Singer [1] (open-access) published in the journal Molecular Autism  recen...

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Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence (VIDEO)

I learned about this video from a House Ear Clinic doctor who learned of it from one of his patients. It is a well made video allowing oth...

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Breast milk protects against GI symptoms in high risk autism?

Happy house @ Paul Whiteley " Late weaning and EBM [exclusive breast milk] were associated with protection against GI [gastrointestina...

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Toxic metal accumulation and autism?

To quote from the recent paper by Altaf Alabdali and colleagues [1] (open-access) " This study confirms earlier studies that implicate...

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ADOS via YouTube for autism 'triage'?

The paper by Vincent Fusaro and colleagues [1] and some accompanying press attention about this study caught my eye recently. Based on an ...

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A specific female ASD phenotype is emerging...

The title of this brief post is a quote taken from the abstract of the paper by Frazier and colleagues  [1] who, following an analysis of pa...

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Autism and the GFCF diet: ScanBrit episode 2

" These preliminary observations on potential best responder characteristics to a gluten- and casein-free diet for children with autism...

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