Maternal anti-fetal brain IgG autoantibodies and autism spectrum disorder: current knowledge and its implications for potential therapeutics. CNS Drugs. 2015;29(9):715–24. Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Meyer U, Yee BK, Feldon J. The neurodevelopmental impact of prenatal infect...
The Autism Spectrum Quotient [AQ − 45]. The AQ is a 50-item scale related to autistic traits. Five areas are evaluated and include 10 questions each: social skills, attention switching, attention to detail, communication, and imagination. Participants rate their agreement with statements on ...
The social motivational theory of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) focuses on social anhedonia as key causal feature of the impaired peer relationships that characterize ASD patients. ASD prevalence is higher in boys, but increasing evidence suggests under
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by persistent social interaction impairments and is male-biased in prevalence. We have established naturally occurring low sociality in male rhesus monkeys as a model for the social features of ASD. Low-social male monkeys exhibit reduced social interacti...
Although further work is necessary to confirm this interpretation, we believe that our study provides the first convincing evidence that advanced paternal age is a risk factor for ASD. Correspondence: Abraham Reichenberg, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L....
The designation is of little use clini- cally but does reflect the growing awareness of the broad phenotypic spectrum of ASDs. A number of diagnostic checklists are commonly used in clinics and schools, including the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS)47 that consists of 15 questions scored by...
includes a graph that allows you to quickly convert the Total Raw Score to a standard score or percentile rank (based on a clinical sample of 1,034 individuals with autism spectrum disorders). The Manual provides guidelines for score interpretation, suggestions for intervention, and case examples....
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) process human faces in atypical ways according to previous literature. We investigated whether individuals with ASD can process face race information and respond to own- and other-race faces differentially. Chinese individuals with ASD (n = 24), typical...
It is worth noting that though all of the described studies detected abnormalities in CSF or brain tissue of ASD patients, high variability between subjects, small samples, and lack of correlation between clinical symptoms and laboratory results hinder interpretation. Only three studies [213,227,232...
Gastrointestinal symptoms are more prevalent in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) than in typically developing (TD) children. Constipation is a significant gastrointestinal comorbidity of ASD, but the associations among constipated autism spec