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Crespi B, Alcock J
Evol Med Public Health . 2021 Mar; 9(1):149-156. PMID: 33732462
Several recent studies have provided evidence that use of calcium channel blockers (CCBs), especially amlodipine and nifedipine, can reduce mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Moreover, hypocalcemia (a reduced level...
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Crespi B
Front Psychiatry . 2021 Mar; 12:621659. PMID: 33643094
Autism is a highly heterogeneous condition, genetically and phenotypically. This diversity of causation and presentation has impeded its definition, recognition, assessment, and treatment. Current diagnostic criteria for autism involve two...
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Crespi B
Evol Med Public Health . 2020 Dec; 2020(1):314-322. PMID: 33335737
The author apply concepts and tools from evolutionary medicine to understanding the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The pandemic represents a mismatched conflict, with dynamics and pathology apparently driven by three main factors:...
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Salminen I, Read S, Hurd P, Crespi B
Psychiatry Res . 2020 Feb; 286:112858. PMID: 32065983
The paternally expressed gene SNORD116 encodes a set of short nucleolar RNAs that affect the expression of hundreds of other genes via epigenetic interactions. Lack of expression for SNORD116 has...
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Crespi B
Psychol Med . 2019 Nov; 50(3):523-525. PMID: 31753058
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Crespi B, Read S, Ly A, Hurd P
Autism Res Treat . 2019 Nov; 2019:1968580. PMID: 31687209
The extreme male brain theory of autism posits that its male bias is mediated by exaggeration of male-biased sex differences in the expression of autism-associated traits found in typical populations....
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Crespi B, Dinsdale N
Evol Med Public Health . 2019 Aug; 2019(1):121-138. PMID: 31402979
Humans have evolved an elaborate system of self-consciousness, self-identity, self-agency, and self-embodiment that is grounded in specific neurological structures including an expanded insula. Instantiation of the bodily self has been...
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Salminen I, Read S, Hurd P, Crespi B
Psychiatry Res . 2019 Mar; 275:94-99. PMID: 30897394
The maternally expressed imprinted gene UBE3A has been implicated in autism, schizophrenia and psychosis. The phenotype of Angelman syndrome, caused by loss of UBE3A expression, involves autism spectrum traits, while...
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Crespi B, Dinsdale N, Read S, Hurd P
PLoS One . 2019 Mar; 14(3):e0213456. PMID: 30849096
The relationships of spirituality with human social cognition, as exemplified in autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum cognitive variation, remain largely unstudied. We quantified non-clinical levels of autism spectrum and schizotypal...
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Mokkonen M, Koskela E, Procyshyn T, Crespi B
Am Nat . 2018 Jul; 192(2):250-262. PMID: 30016171
Evolutionary conflicts between males and females can manifest over sexually antagonistic interactions at loci or over sexually antagonistic interests within a locus. The latter form of conflict, intralocus sexual conflict,...