An overview of the main genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors involved in autism spectrum disorder focusing on synaptic activity

E Masini, E Loi, AF Vega-Benedetti, M Carta… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects social
interaction and communication, with restricted interests, activity and behaviors. ASD is highly …

Investigating alexithymia in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis

E Kinnaird, C Stewart, K Tchanturia - European Psychiatry, 2019 - cambridge.org
Background: New research suggests that, rather than representing a core feature of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), emotional processing difficulties reflect co-occurring alexithymia …

Disease prediction using graph convolutional networks: application to autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer's disease

S Parisot, SI Ktena, E Ferrante, M Lee, R Guerrero… - Medical image …, 2018 - Elsevier
Graphs are widely used as a natural framework that captures interactions between
individual elements represented as nodes in a graph. In medical applications, specifically …

Resting state fMRI: A review on methods in resting state connectivity analysis and resting state networks

KA Smitha, K Akhil Raja, KM Arun… - The …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The inquisitiveness about what happens in the brain has been there since the beginning of
humankind. Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a prominent tool which helps in the …

Classification of brain disorders in rs-fMRI via local-to-global graph neural networks

H Zhang, R Song, L Wang, L Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, functional brain network has been used for the classification of brain disorders,
such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Existing methods …

Is functional brain connectivity atypical in autism? A systematic review of EEG and MEG studies

C O'Reilly, JD Lewis, M Elsabbagh - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Although it is well recognized that autism is associated with altered patterns of
over-and under-connectivity, specifics are still a matter of debate. Little has been done so far …

Autistic spectrum disorders: A review of clinical features, theories and diagnosis

M Fakhoury - International journal of developmental neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of neurodevelopmental disorders that is among the
most severe in terms of prevalence, morbidity and impact to the society. It is characterized by …

A systematic review of structural MRI biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder: A machine learning perspective

AM Pagnozzi, E Conti, S Calderoni, J Fripp… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects approximately 1% of the population and
leads to impairments in social interaction, communication and restricted, repetitive …

Sex differences in autism: a resting-state fMRI investigation of functional brain connectivity in males and females

K Alaerts, SP Swinnen… - Social cognitive and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are far more prevalent in males than in females. Little is
known however about the differential neural expression of ASD in males and females. We …

Diet: the keystone of autism spectrum disorder?

S Peretti, M Mariano, C Mazzocchetti… - Nutritional …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Children with autism are characterized by an impairment of social interaction and repetitive
patterns of behaviour. Autism is a heterogeneous span of disorders with unknown aetiology …