On the under-studied populations within the autism spectrum

I don't typically post on a Sunday, but given that today - 2nd April - is World Autism Awareness Day  I've decided to make an except...

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Immune endophenotypes in paediatric autism

Today I'm serving up  the paper by Milo Careaga and colleagues [1] for your blogging delight, who concluded that: " Children with ...

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HERVs as a mechanism of genetic deletion formation: relevance to some autism?

My stark lack of knowledge in the area of genetics and specifically that linked to the human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs)  that litter th...

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Even more air pollution and autism risk findings

Air pollution. I'm pretty sure most people are aware of all the talk about air pollution these days and how the human body is not partic...

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A bottom-up approach to autism research?

If anything else, the recent discussions on the principles of RDoC - Research Domain Criteria ( see here ) - being applied to psychiatry hav...

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