Tag Archives: epilepsy
My favorite drug II
Back from cold and rainy refereeing, but followed by exciting 3-2 win by my son’s soccer team, in which he scored the winning goal! New paper just out from Mark Bear’s group at MIT. They have been at the forefront of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's disease, autism, epilepsy, inflammation, mental-health, Parkinson's disease, statins, stroke
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Advances presented at the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting
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
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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
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Nutritional supplement for rare form of autism?
A mutation in the gene for an enzyme (BCKDK) that blocks the breakdown of certain amino acids has been linked to a very rare form of autism, epilepsy and intellectual disability. Thus, these patients have abnormally low levels of these amino … Continue reading
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Tagged autism, epilepsy, intellectual disability, mouse model, seizure
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Autism-schizophrenia overlap
Thanks to ASDresearchinitiative for pointing out a new article on diseases that are co-morbid with autism. The findings (simplified by me): 19% of ASD patients had epilepsy as compared to 2% in the overall hospital population, 2.4% of ASD with schizophrenia vs. … Continue reading
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Tagged asd, autism, autoimmune disease, diabetes, epilepsy, GI inflammation, muscular dystrophy, schizophrenia, sleep disorders
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Infectious Behavior 