Steve Spiegel is a natural scientist and independent neuroscientist who had an epiphany about human psychology after experiencing trauma in early adulthood. The revelation initiated nearly five decades of independent, […]
Last week our team published its newest work in the realm of autism genetics in Frontiers in Psychiatry titled, “Widespread Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Intellectual Disability.” For those of you who don’t follow genetics […]
Although much of my research efforts to date have focused on the genetics of autism, over the last year or so I’ve turned a significant part of my attention to […]
Connective tissue diseases such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Marfan Syndrome (MFS) are overlapping conditions that are often linked with mutations in connective tissue genes, such as collagen (implicated in […]
Prematurity seems to be a significant risk factor for developing autism. About 13% of all births are premature, although these stats vary by higher- vs. lower-income countries. In higher-income countries, […]
One of the more popular theories explaining autism symptomology concerns an excitatory:inhibitory (E:I) imbalance in the brain [1, 2]. This states that an E:I imbalance leads to overexcitation in pyramidal […]
Certain regions of the human genome seem to be prone towards copy number variations (CNV), which are large rearrangements of DNA that often occur in the form of deletions and […]
The immune system exists as a very complex multiorgan system, composed of numerous sub-branches. The process of inflammation itself can be subdivided into: allergic responses; cytotoxic responses involving mast cells, […]
Why is autism diagnosed more often in boys than girls? True, there is some evidence to suggest that the diagnostic criteria themselves were based primarily on males and therefore better […]
It’s been a few months since the paper by Webb et al. (2016) came out, reporting a possible link between first trimester ultrasound exposure and increased autism severity in those […]
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