Current enlightenment about etiology and pharmacological treatment of autism spectrum disorder

N Eissa, M Al-Houqani, A Sadeq, SK Ojha… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental brain disorder
characterized by two core behavioral symptoms, namely impairments in social …

Genetics of autism spectrum disorder

G Ramaswami, DH Geschwind - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder characterized
by impaired social interaction and stereotyped behaviors. ASD has a strong and complex …

Glutamate and GABA in autism spectrum disorder—a translational magnetic resonance spectroscopy study in man and rodent models

J Horder, MM Petrinovic, MA Mendez, A Bruns… - Translational …, 2018 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a pervasive neurodevelopmental syndrome with a high
human and economic burden. The pathophysiology of ASD is largely unclear, thus …

Social deficits in Shank3-deficient mouse models of autism are rescued by histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibition

L Qin, K Ma, ZJ Wang, Z Hu, E Matas, J Wei… - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Haploinsufficiency of the SHANK3 gene is causally linked to autism spectrum disorder
(ASD), and ASD-associated genes are also enriched for chromatin remodelers. Here we …

Prenatal fever and autism risk

M Hornig, MA Bresnahan, X Che, AF Schultz… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Some studies suggest that prenatal infection increases risk of autism spectrum disorders
(ASDs). This study was undertaken in a prospective cohort in Norway to examine whether …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition

V Warrier, KL Grasby, F Uzefovsky, R Toro… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy using the 'Reading the
Mind in the Eyes' Test (Eyes Test) in 88,056 research volunteers of European Ancestry …

Autism-like phenotype and risk gene mRNA deadenylation by CPEB4 mis-splicing

A Parras, H Anta, M Santos-Galindo, V Swarup… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Common genetic contributions to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) reside in risk gene
variants that individually have minimal effect sizes. As environmental factors that perturb …

A population genetic interpretation of GWAS findings for human quantitative traits

YB Simons, K Bullaughey, RR Hudson, G Sella - PLoS biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Human genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are revealing the genetic architecture of
anthropomorphic and biomedical traits, ie, the frequencies and effect sizes of variants that …

Neural circuits for social cognition: implications for autism

M Fernández, I Mollinedo-Gajate, O Peñagarikano - Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Social neuroscience, the study of the neurobiological basis of social behavior, has become
a major area of current research in behavioral neuroscience and psychiatry, since many …

Autism-associated 16p11. 2 microdeletion impairs prefrontal functional connectivity in mouse and human

A Bertero, A Liska, M Pagani, R Parolisi, ME Masferrer… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Human genetic studies are rapidly identifying variants that increase risk for
neurodevelopmental disorders. However, it remains unclear how specific mutations impact …