The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and Autism
For all people that think that cholesterol is a bad thing they should take a look at conditions linked to abnormalities in its metabolism such as the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, Niemann-Pick, […]
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Extreme prematurity and autism
Preterm birth is usually defined as the birth of a baby before 37 weeks of gestational age. Extreme prematurity refers to those babies born between 22 and 25 completed weeks […]
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and autism
This is one in a series of blogs where I discuss different conditions manifesting autstic symptomatology of known origin or neuropathology (so-called syndromic autism). The first of these blogs was […]
Tuberous sclerosis and autism
This is the first of several blogs describing how a variety of conditions, which manifest autistic symptomatology in a high proportion of cases, involve the same mechanism: interference with the […]
The Cause of Autism: Part 2 The Basics
My previous blog served to introduce the possibility of a defect in brain development that could explain many of the observed pathological features of autism (see http://bit.ly/1aM5KFu ). In it […]
The Cause of Autism: Part 1 Introduction
I know that it is presumptious to write an article about what may be the cause of autism. There are many individuals that have their own take on this particular […]
The significance of small cells in autism
The job of a neuropathologist is to establish the existence of abnormalities in the conformation of both cells and tissue. This endeavor is not all that different from that of […]
All Roads Once Led to Rome… But Do All Roads Lead to Autism??
What do autism and cancer have in common? There are many false results in genetic studies of cancer research and these are similar to those ones reported for autism. All […]
Acquired Savant Syndrome
Probably some 25 years ago I was able to participate in a NIH study where we recruited a group of autistic individuals that had calendar calculating abilities. The idea was […]
Caveats to the Nature-Nurture Debate on Autism
How much of a condition can be explained by environmental influences and how much can be explained by genetic factors? This has been an outdated polemic within the life sciences […]
