Tag Archives: autoimmune disease

Stem cell therapy for autism – first clinical trial

Posted on August 29, 2013 by phpatterson

A paper just out from the Shenzen Beike Cell Engineering Research Institute in Guangdong, China presents the first results of a proof-of-concept, safety trial of stem cell (SC) injections in 37 autistic children. The justification for this intervention is primarily … Continue reading →

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Are common bacterial infections making children mentally ill?

Posted on June 2, 2013 by phpatterson

“A feverish debate” – Excellent new article on PANDAS etc by Alison Motluck.

Posted in General | Tagged autoimmune disease, mental-health, OCD, PANDAS, streptococcus | 1 Comment

Dietary salt, inflammation and mental illness?

Posted on May 20, 2013 by phpatterson

In the past few decades there has been a marked increase in autoimmune disease. This has been correlated with the increased population of the Western diet and processed foods. The latter contain far more salt than homemade foods. Now, two … Continue reading →

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TEDx talk: Mind altering microbes

Posted on February 20, 2013 by phpatterson

Our just graduated PhD student Elaine Hsiao recently gave a superb 5 minute talk at Caltech’s TEDx event on her work on gut-brain connections related to autism: Mind Altering Microbes. [click on that title to see the talk][click on the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged autism, autoimmune disease, GI inflammation, GI symptoms and autism, leaky gut, maternal infection, mental-health, microbiome, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia | 5 Comments

“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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We’re in the top 10, as well as the top 12!

Posted on December 20, 2012 by phpatterson

Congrats to Elaine Hsiao our super-productive graduate student who passed her exam to get her PhD at the end of 2012. Her paper, “Modeling an autism risk factor in mice leads to permanent immune dysregulation”, was just named one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged autism, autoimmune disease, cytokine, inflammation, maternal infection, mouse model, multiple sclerosis, Rett syndrome | 2 Comments

Advances presented at the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting

Posted on October 24, 2012 by phpatterson

After 5 intensive days at the annual meeting held this year in New Orleans, things are just getting back to normal around here. Among the >28,000 participants, there were several presentations that particularly caught my eye in the areas of … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged autism, autoimmune disease, cytokine, epilepsy, fragile x, health, IGF, il-10, inflammation, ketogenic diet, mental-health, mouse model, multiple sclerosis, neuregulin, Rett syndrome, schizophrenia, seizure, socialability | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in General | Tagged autism, autoantibodies, autoimmune disease, GI inflammation, GI symptoms and autism, helminth therapy, inflammation, maternal infection, mental-health, microbiome, mouse model | 7 Comments

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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