Jumat, 30 November 2012

Attention Deficit Disorders more than most I feel are diseases of civilization, particularly our hypermodern civilization. Certainly they are inherited, and many folks will show up at my office after a child has been diagnosed with ADHD, telling me, "you know what, I've always had trouble focusing as well." I've even seen old grade school report cards from the seventies, with neat teacher's script:...
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Minggu, 11 November 2012

B12 Deficiency and Psychosis, A Case Study

I'm a little few and far between here lately. Besides the day job and the children, between my weekly class, natural disasters, and presenting (almost every week, it seems), all my spare time for looking up papers and blogging has been sucked away. I'm eager to engage on another bigger project instead of doing these posts on single papers, and in that vein I'm hopeful to pursue OCD and then a lot...
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Jumat, 02 November 2012

Autism and Maternal Metabolic Health

I've been sitting on this study for a while. It was published in Pediatrics in May, 2012:Maternal Metabolic Conditions and Risk for Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental DisordersIn California, many children aged 2-5 between 2003 and 2010 were involved in population based cohorts with the CHARGE study. I've covered a previous paper from this study before�Captial Cities: Safe and SoundDiagnoses of children...
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