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		<title>Brain features associated with neonatal risk for schizophrenia</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/brain-features-associated-with-neonatal-risk-for-schizophrenia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, John Gilmore and colleages reported that the size and structure of the brains of newborn boys&#8212;but not girls&#8212;who are at risk for developing schizophrenia differ from those of their peers. Using multiple scanning methods at different times during gestation and infancy, the researchers compared the brains of offspring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA warns seller of chelation product</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to the producer of a product that is sometimes used by people hoping to eliminate heavy metals from children&#8217;s bodies (e.g., chelate mercury from children with autism). In a letter addressed to Boyd D. Haley of CTI Science Inc., Teresa C. Thompson of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNV and Autism</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/cnv-and-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Science Based Medicine, David Gorsky has an extended post explaining the finding reported in &#8220;Functional Impact of Global Rare Copy Number Variation in Autism Spectrum Disorders&#8221; by Dalila Pinto and colleagues (and there are ship load of colleagues) that appeared in Nature. Dr. Pinto and colleagues examined copy number variations (CNVs; deletions, insertions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad science?</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/bad-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an editorial under the headline &#8220;Bad science gets its due,&#8221; the editors of the Boston (MA) Globe lament the consequences of Andrew Wakefield&#8217;s promotion of a connection between vaccines and Autism. At the end of the piece, the editorialist makes an important point:
But sadder still is the possibility that, in the minds of thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scitable on Autism</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/05/scitable-on-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publishers of Nature are promoting a new site, Scitable. The publishers bill Scitable as &#8220;a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world&#8217;s leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.&#8221; Autism is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism appears early</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/02/autism-appears-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Oznoff et al., 2010
In &#8220;A Prospective Study of the Emergence of Early Behavioral Signs of Autism,&#8221; Professor Sally Oznoff and colleagues found that infants who develop Autism behave differently than their typically developing peers even as early as one year of age. Writing in the Journal of the American Academy of Child &#38; Adolescent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maternal age increases risk of Autistic offspring</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/02/maternal-age-increases-risk-of-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janie Shelton and colleagues at the University of Califonia at Davis reported that women over 40 years of age who give birth have an increased risk of the  child having Autism. By studying a large sample of births, the researchers were able to disentangle the relative contributions of maternal and paternal age to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science, gastro-intestinal problems, diets, and Autism</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/01/science-gastro-intestinal-problems-diets-and-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buie et al.&#8217;s &#8220;Take-Away Messages&#8221;
In Pediatrics Dr. Timothy Buie and colleagues published a paper providing evidence-based recommendations for pediatricians who evaluate and treat gastrointestinal problems in patients with Autism. The authors, who represent many important scientific groups concerned with allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, nutrition, and similar problems, concluded that children with Autism and related disorders should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excessive levels of calcium mark brains of individuals with Autism</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/12/excessive-levels-of-calcium-mark-brains-of-individuals-with-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Molecular Psychiatry, L. Palmieri of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Bari (Bari, IT) and colleagues reported the results of a small-n study of levels of metabolic transporters in the brain tissue of individuals with and without Autism. They compared the contents of samples from the brains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnicity and Autism?</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/12/ethnicity-and-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a comment by reader DrFoo (AKA &#8216;Rollen&#8217;), I was alerted to an interesting study about variation in the rates of Autism in different ethnic populations. The news releases say that the incidence of Autism among Hispanics is lower than it is among non-Hispanic white peers. 
These news releases refer to a study entitled [...]]]></description>
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