clinic-referred cohort studies included large groups of toddlers without ASD ascertained in the same manner as the toddlers with ASD. Such contrast groups are essential to understand how the ASD phenotype emerges from and overlaps with clinical expressions from other diagnostic groups, such as ...
Patients were required to visit the clinic for a screening session, a baseline visit a week later, and weekly thereafter; efficacy measurements were made at the end of weeks 1, 2, 4, and 6 or termination. The primary efficacy outcome measure of this study was the total score on the 17-...