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  1. Autistic individuals commonly show circumscribed or “special” interests: areas of obsessive interest in a specific category. The present study investigated what impact these interests have on attention, an asp...

    Authors: Owen E. Parsons, Andrew P. Bayliss and Anna Remington
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:20
  2. Childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD) is a rare form of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) of unknown etiology. It is characterized by late-onset regression leading to significant intellectual disability (ID) an...

    Authors: Abha R. Gupta, Alexander Westphal, Daniel Y. J. Yang, Catherine A. W. Sullivan, Jeffrey Eilbott, Samir Zaidi, Avery Voos, Brent C. Vander Wyk, Pam Ventola, Zainulabedin Waqar, Thomas V. Fernandez, A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek, Michael F. Walker, Murim Choi, Allison Schneider, Tammy Hedderly…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:19
  3. Shared genetic influences between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms have been reported. Cross-trait genetic relationships are, however, subjec...

    Authors: Evie Stergiakouli, George Davey Smith, Joanna Martin, David H. Skuse, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Susan M. Ring, Angelica Ronald, David E. Evans, Simon E. Fisher, Anita Thapar and Beate St Pourcain
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:18
  4. Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe, neurodevelopmental disorder primarily affecting girls, characterized by progressive loss of cognitive, social, and motor skills after a relatively brief period of typical devel...

    Authors: Dejian Zhao, Ryan Mokhtari, Erika Pedrosa, Rayna Birnbaum, Deyou Zheng and Herbert M. Lachman
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:17
  5. Studies reporting altered susceptibility to visual illusions in autistic individuals compared to that typically developing individuals have been taken to reflect differences in perception (e.g. reduced global ...

    Authors: Catherine Manning, Michael J. Morgan, Craig T. W. Allen and Elizabeth Pellicano
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:16
  6. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most highly heritable neuropsychiatric disorders, but underlying molecular mechanisms are still unresolved due to extreme locus heterogeneity. Leveraging meaningful...

    Authors: Rui Chen, Lea K. Davis, Stephen Guter, Qiang Wei, Suma Jacob, Melissa H. Potter, Nancy J. Cox, Edwin H. Cook, James S. Sutcliffe and Bingshan Li
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:14
  7. CHD8 (chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 8), which codes for a member of the CHD family of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling factors, is one of the most commonly mutated genes ...

    Authors: Ping Wang, Ryan Mokhtari, Erika Pedrosa, Michael Kirschenbaum, Can Bayrak, Deyou Zheng and Herbert M. Lachman
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:11
  8. According to recent evidence, up to 40–50% of variance in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) liability might be determined by environmental factors. In the present paper, we conducted a review of systematic review...

    Authors: Amirhossein Modabbernia, Eva Velthorst and Abraham Reichenberg
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:13
  9. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disease characterized by difficulties in social communication, unusually restricted, repetitive behavior and interests, and specific abnormalities in lang...

    Authors: Dominique Endres, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Simon A. Meyer, Bernd Feige, Kathrin Nickel, Anna Bubl, Andreas Riedel, Dieter Ebert, Thomas Lange, Volkmar Glauche, Monica Biscaldi, Alexandra Philipsen, Simon J. Maier and Evgeniy Perlov
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:10
  10. Prenatal exposure to infection is a recognized environmental risk factor for neuropsychiatric disorders of developmental origins such as autism or schizophrenia. Experimental work in animals indicates that thi...

    Authors: Stephanie Vuillermot, Wei Luan, Urs Meyer and Darryl Eyles
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:9
  11. Restricted and repetitive behaviors are defining features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Under revised diagnostic criteria for ASD, this behavioral domain now includes atypical responses to sensory stimuli...

    Authors: Jason J. Wolff, Meghan R. Swanson, Jed T. Elison, Guido Gerig, John R. Pruett Jr., Martin A. Styner, Clement Vachet, Kelly N. Botteron, Stephen R. Dager, Annette M. Estes, Heather C. Hazlett, Robert T. Schultz, Mark D. Shen, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Joseph Piven
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:8
  12. Socio-emotional difficulties in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are thought to reflect impaired functional connectivity within the “social brain”. Nonetheless, a whole-brain characterization of the fast respons...

    Authors: Rocco Mennella, Rachel C. Leung, Margot J. Taylor and Benjamin T. Dunkley
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:7
  13. The etiology of autism, a complex, heritable, neurodevelopmental disorder, remains largely unexplained. Given the unexplained risk and recent evidence supporting a role for epigenetic mechanisms in the develop...

    Authors: Shannon E. Ellis, Simone Gupta, Anna Moes, Andrew B. West and Dan E. Arking
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:6
  14. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are persistent and lifelong conditions. Despite this, almost all twin studies focus on childhood. This twin study investigated the stability of autistic traits from childhood to...

    Authors: Mark J. Taylor, Christopher Gillberg, Paul Lichtenstein and Sebastian Lundström
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:5
  15. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is sexually dimorphic in brain structure, genetics, and behaviors. In studies of brain tissue, the age of the population is clearly a factor in interpreting study outcome, yet se...

    Authors: Cynthia M. Schumann, Frank R. Sharp, Bradley P. Ander and Boryana Stamova
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:4
  16. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects more than 1% of children in the USA. The male-to-female prevalence ratio of roughly 4:1 in ASD is a well-recognized but poorly understood phenomenon. An explicit focus on...

    Authors: Bo Y. Park, Brian K. Lee, Igor Burstyn, Loni P. Tabb, Jeff A. Keelan, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, Lisa A. Croen, Margaret D. Fallin, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Owen Montgomery and Craig J. Newschaffer
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:3
  17. d-Cycloserine (DCS) enhances extinction learning across species, but it has proven challenging to identify consistent benefit of DCS when added to therapeutic interventions. We conduct...

    Authors: Logan K. Wink, Noha F. Minshawi, Rebecca C. Shaffer, Martin H. Plawecki, David J. Posey, Paul S. Horn, Ryan Adams, Ernest V. Pedapati, Tori L. Schaefer, Christopher J. McDougle, Naomi B. Swiezy and Craig A. Erickson
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:2
  18. The causes of autism likely involve genetic and environmental factors that influence neurobiological changes and the neurological and behavioral features of the disorder. Immune factors and inflammation are hy...

    Authors: Carlos A. Pardo, Cristan A. Farmer, Audrey Thurm, Fatma M. Shebl, Jorjetta Ilieva, Simran Kalra and Susan Swedo
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2017 8:1
  19. Children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have emotion recognition deficits when tested in different expression modalities (face, voice, body). However, these findings usually focus on basic emotions, usi...

    Authors: Shimrit Fridenson-Hayo, Steve Berggren, Amandine Lassalle, Shahar Tal, Delia Pigat, Sven Bölte, Simon Baron-Cohen and Ofer Golan
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:52
  20. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are increasingly prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders that are behaviorally diagnosed in early childhood. Most ASD cases likely arise from a complex mixture of genetic and env...

    Authors: Diane I. Schroeder, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Florence K. Crary-Dooley, Cheryl K. Walker, Sally Ozonoff, Daniel J. Tancredi, Irva Hertz-Picciotto and Janine M. LaSalle
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:51
  21. Autism is characterised by atypical social-communicative behaviour and restricted range of interests and repetitive behaviours. These features exist in a continuum in the general population. Behavioural measur...

    Authors: Alokananda Rudra, Jai Ranjan Ram, Tom Loucas, Matthew K. Belmonte and Bhismadev Chakrabarti
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:50
  22. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are complex conditions whose pathogenesis may be attributed to gene–environment interactions. There are no definitive mechanisms explaining how environmental triggers can lead t...

    Authors: Maria Fiorentino, Anna Sapone, Stefania Senger, Stephanie S. Camhi, Sarah M. Kadzielski, Timothy M. Buie, Deanna L. Kelly, Nicola Cascella and Alessio Fasano
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:49
  23. Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are frequently associated with motor coordination difficulties. However, no studies have explored the prevalence of dyspraxia in a large sample of individuals with and without ...

    Authors: Sarah Cassidy, Penelope Hannant, Teresa Tavassoli, Carrie Allison, Paula Smith and Simon Baron-Cohen
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:48
  24. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still diagnosed through behavioral observation, due to a lack of laboratory biomarkers, which could greatly aid clinicians in providing earlier and more reliable diagnoses. Me...

    Authors: Federica Gevi, Lello Zolla, Stefano Gabriele and Antonio M. Persico
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:47
  25. A prominent diagnostic criterion of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relates to the abnormal or diminished use of facial expressions. Yet little is known about the mechanisms that contribute to this feature of ASD.

    Authors: Dominic A. Trevisan, Marleis Bowering and Elina Birmingham
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:46
  26. Mimetic desire (MD), the spontaneous propensity to pursue goals that others pursue, is a case of social influence that is believed to shape preferences. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is defined by both atypic...

    Authors: Baudouin Forgeot d’Arc, Fabien Vinckier, Maël Lebreton, Isabelle Soulières, Laurent Mottron and Mathias Pessiglione
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:45
  27. The search for genetic factors underlying autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has led to the identification of hundreds of genes containing thousands of variants that differ in mode of inheritance, effect size, fr...

    Authors: Eric Larsen, Idan Menashe, Mark N. Ziats, Wayne Pereanu, Alan Packer and Sharmila Banerjee-Basu
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:44
  28. Fragile X syndrome (FXS), a common cause of intellectual disability and autism, results from the expansion of a CGG-repeat tract in the 5′ untranslated region of the FMR1 gene to >200 repeats. Such expanded allel...

    Authors: Yifan Zhou, Daman Kumari, Nicholas Sciascia and Karen Usdin
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:42
  29. The insular cortex comprises multiple functionally differentiated sub-regions, each of which has different patterns of connectivity with other brain regions. Such diverse connectivity patterns are thought to u...

    Authors: Takashi Yamada, Takashi Itahashi, Motoaki Nakamura, Hiromi Watanabe, Miho Kuroda, Haruhisa Ohta, Chieko Kanai, Nobumasa Kato and Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:41
  30. Recent studies have indicated that quantitative autistic traits (QATs) of parents reflect inherited liabilities that may index background genetic risk for clinical autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in their offsp...

    Authors: Joshua Page, John Nicholas Constantino, Katherine Zambrana, Eden Martin, Ilker Tunc, Yi Zhang, Anna Abbacchi and Daniel Messinger
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:39
  31. Impaired orienting to social stimuli is one of the core early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, in contrast to faces, name processing has rarely been studied in individuals with ASD. Here, w...

    Authors: Anna Nowicka, Hanna B. Cygan, Paweł Tacikowski, Paweł Ostaszewski and Rafał Kuś
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:38
  32. Gastrointestinal dysfunction and gut microbial composition disturbances have been widely reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study examines whether gut microbiome disturbances are present in the BTBR

    Authors: Christopher Newell, Marc R. Bomhof, Raylene A. Reimer, Dustin S. Hittel, Jong M. Rho and Jane Shearer
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:37
  33. Atypical lateralization of language-related functions has been repeatedly found in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). Few studies have, however, investigated deviations from typically occurring...

    Authors: Dorothea L. Floris, Anita D. Barber, Mary Beth Nebel, Mary Martinelli, Meng-Chuan Lai, Deana Crocetti, Simon Baron-Cohen, John Suckling, James J. Pekar and Stewart H. Mostofsky
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:35
  34. Sibling recurrence data from the Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) recapitulate results from very large clinical family studies that demonstrate the absence of the Carter effect and provide clarificatio...

    Authors: John N. Constantino
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:32
  35. Messinger et al. found a 3.18 odds ratio of male to female ASD recurrence in 1241 prospectively followed high-risk (HR) siblings. Among high-risk siblings (with and without ASD), as well as among 583 low-risk ...

    Authors: Daniel S. Messinger, Gregory S. Young, Sara Jane Webb, Sally Ozonoff, Susan E. Bryson, Alice Carter, Leslie Carver, Tony Charman, Katarzyna Chawarska, Suzanne Curtin, Karen Dobkins, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ted Hutman, Jana M. Iverson, Rebecca Landa, Charles A. Nelson…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:31
  36. Restricted and repetitive behaviours (RRBs) constitute a core symptom domain of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the nature of RRBs in the context of the Broader Autism Phenotype (BAP) is not well unde...

    Authors: Mirko Uljarević, David W. Evans, Gail A. Alvares and Andrew J. O. Whitehouse
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:29
  37. While asymmetry in the fusiform gyrus (FFG) has been reported in functional and structural studies in typically developing controls (TDC), few studies have examined FFG asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder (A...

    Authors: Chase C. Dougherty, David W. Evans, Gajendra J. Katuwal and Andrew M. Michael
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:28
  38. Widespread use of microarray technology has led to increasing identification of 22q11.2 duplication syndrome (22q11.2DupS), the reciprocal syndrome of the well-characterized 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2D...

    Authors: Tara L. Wenger, Judith S. Miller, Lauren M. DePolo, Ashley B. de Marchena, Caitlin C. Clements, Beverly S. Emanuel, Elaine H. Zackai, Donna M. McDonald-McGinn and Robert T. Schultz
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:27

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  39. Social impairment is a defining feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with no demonstrated effective pharmacologic treatments. The goal of this study was to evaluate efficacy, safety, and tolerability of o...

    Authors: Logan K. Wink, Ryan Adams, Zemin Wang, James E. Klaunig, Martin H. Plawecki, David J. Posey, Christopher J. McDougle and Craig A. Erickson
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:26
  40. Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are associated with a range of perceptual atypicalities, including abnormalities in gaze processing. Pellicano and Burr (Trends Cogn Sci 16(10):504-10, 2012) have argued that t...

    Authors: Philip J. Pell, Isabelle Mareschal, Andrew J. Calder, Elisabeth A. H. von dem Hagen, Colin W.G. Clifford, Simon Baron-Cohen and Michael P. Ewbank
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:25
  41. Recent research has identified differences in relative attention to competing social versus non-social video stimuli in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Whether attentional allocation is influe...

    Authors: Hayley Crawford, Joanna Moss, Chris Oliver, Natasha Elliott, Giles M. Anderson and Joseph P. McCleery
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:24
  42. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early-onset neurodevelopmental disorder with complex genetic underpinning in its etiology. Copy number variations (CNVs) as one of the genetic factors associated with ASD h...

    Authors: Chia-Lin Yin, Hsin-I Chen, Ling-Hui Li, Yi-Ling Chien, Hsiao-Mei Liao, Miao Chun Chou, Wen-Jiun Chou, Wen-Che Tsai, Yen-Nan Chiu, Yu-Yu Wu, Chen-Zen Lo, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Yuan-Tsong Chen and Susan Shur-Fen Gau
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2016 7:23

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