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The Greater Good Movie

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Connection

Autism: an emerging ‘neuroimmune disorder’ in search of therapy
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1517/14656560903107789

Molecular mechanisms underlying anti-inflammatory phenotype of neonatal splenic macrophages
http://www.jleukbio.org/content/82/2/403.full.pdf+html

Central and Peripheral Cytokines Mediate Immune-Brain Connectivity
http://www.springerlink.com/content/f6718rl3g2k75656/

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who exhibit chronic gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and marked fluctuation of behavioral symptoms exhibit distinct innate immune abnormalities and transcriptional profiles of peripheral blood (PB) monocytes
http://www.jni-journal.com/article/S0165-5728(11)00191-3/abstract

Panenteric IBD-Like Disease in a Patient with Regressive Autism Shown for the First Time by the Wireless Capsule Enteroscopy: Another Piece in the Jigsaw of this Gut-Brain Syndrome?
http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v100/n4/full/ajg2005166a.html

Clinical Presentation and Histologic Findings at Ileocolonoscopy in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Chronic Gastrointestinal Symptoms
(Click “Download Paper” for full text)
http://www.la-press.com/clinical-presentation-and-histologic-findings-at-ileocolonoscopy-in-ch-article-a1816

Effectiveness of the gluten-free, casein-free diet for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder:
(Based on parental report)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22564339

Hypothesis: Conjugate vaccines may predispose children to autism spectrum disorders
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987711004117

A possible central mechanism in autism spectrum disorders, part 1
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19043938

A possible central mechanism in autism spectrum disorders, part 2: immunoexcitotoxicity
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19161050

A possible central mechanism in autism spectrum disorders, part 3: the role of excitotoxin food additives and the synergistic effects of other environmental toxins
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284184

Immune-glutamatergic dysfunction as a central mechanism of the autism spectrum disorders
http://www.benthamdirect.org/pages/content.php?CMC/2009/00000016/00000002/0003C.SGM

Immune Activation in Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration: Too Much or Too Little?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627309006771

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