Tag Archives: autoantibodies

Our new paper due out in Dec 5 CELL

Posted on November 23, 2013 by phpatterson

This is the paper showing probiotic therapy works in the mouse model of an autism risk factor.

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“Infectious Behavior” blog – 2012 in review

Posted on December 31, 2012 by phpatterson

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 16,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

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Toxo infection increases risk for suicide

Posted on October 1, 2012 by phpatterson

At the PANDAS meeting last week in Irvine, my Swedish publisher, Gunilla Gerland of Pauvus Utbildning, told me about 2 new articles on Toxoplasma gondii infection, which are of interest in light of the discussion in Chap. 5 of my … Continue reading →

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Annotations posted for the important NYT article

Posted on August 31, 2012 by phpatterson

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, the author of last Sunday’s NYT article on immune-autism connections has just posted a list of references that he used to put the article together. I think he does a good job in citing relevant work. Of course, … Continue reading →

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Live chat on Autism Speaks Facebook Tue, 8/29

Posted on August 28, 2012 by phpatterson

I’ll be answering questions and discussing the NYT article on immune involvement in autism tomorrow, 8/29, 3pm EDT: https://www.facebook.com/autismspeaks?ref=stream&sk=app_226961267321617 So it turned out than an hour was no where near long enough to answer all the questions. Therefore, I’ll attempt to … Continue reading →

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Whipworm intestinal parasite also helpful in human trials of Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and in diabetic mice – what about autism?

Posted on June 28, 2012 by phpatterson

I was just contacted by Karin Hehenberger to join the Scientific Advisory Board of her company, Coronado Biosciences. This company is studying the effects of adminstering non-pathogenic whipworm ova (Trichuris suis; TSO) in a number of autoimmune diseases. They are … Continue reading →

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Of PANDAS and rats

Posted on May 28, 2012 by phpatterson

In a post on 4/6/12, I reviewed a paper by Zhang et al. that provided evidence that anti-streptococcus antibodies can penetrate into the brain and possibly excite neurons in areas relevant for behaviors relevant for PANDAS and OCD. The authors … Continue reading →

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Ever more immune links with schizophrenia

Posted on May 20, 2012 by phpatterson

Last year, Brian Miller and colleagues at the Georgia Health Sciences University reported a meta-analysis of cytokine alterations in the serum of schizophrenia (Sz) subjects. This type of study synthesizes findings from many papers in the literature, in this case … Continue reading →

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