Maternal Inflammation during Pregnancy, Autism, & Big Brains
A paper published this month in Stem Cell Reports by Le Belle et al. out of UCLA suggests that maternal inflammation during pregnancy, such as occurs during an acute illness […]
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The Essence of Christopher Gillberg’s E.S.S.E.N.C.E. Theory
“While in the past, child psychiatry had little interest in operationalised diagnosis, recent trends have made categorical diagnosis an integral part of everyday clinical and research practice. So focused are […]
“Vaccine Encephalopathy” – Autism, Epilepsy, & Age of Onset
“Vaccine Encephalopathy”. Despite the medical-sounding terminology, it’s a very poorly defined term and is used to describe developmental regression, seizures, and sometimes coma in an infant or young child, beginning […]
Common Genetic Variants & Autism Risk
A letter was published this month in Nature Genetics by Gaugier et al. which has received notable attention. While many of us may be familiar with rare variants of genes […]
Excitatory GABA
gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, otherwise more commonly known by its acronym, “GABA,” is a primary neurotransmitter of the central nervous system. While most of us may be more familiar with the concept […]
Sometimes You Can Tell a Book by its Cover: Shared Developments of the Brain and Face
Doctors and scientists have long been aware that certain craniofacial anomalies, especially those lying upon the midline of the face, i.e., eyes, nose, mouth, can often have a syndromic relationship […]
The University of Google – Armchair Science & Medicine
Sometimes, parents have to fight like tigers to advocate for their kids. I think we’ve all had unfortunate run-ins with healthcare professionals who have the bedside manner of a prickly […]
Animal Flowers & the Natural History of Science
I recently purchased a print off of eBay taken from the 1st American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, printed in 1797. Having been brushing up on my natural history over […]
International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) 2014
From left to right: Ami Klin, Laura Klinger, Francesca Happé, and Joe Piven. My fiancé, Manny Casanova, and I just finished attending this year’s International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) […]
Cellular Appearances Can Be Deceiving…
For the past year I’ve been working on a project involving the development of hair. Some of our recent findings involve variations in function of a key protein, a type […]
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