Autism spectrum disorders are not rare; many primary care pediatricians care for several
children with autism spectrum disorders. Pediatricians play an important role in early …

A large number of studies have reported on the validity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
screening procedures. An overall understanding of these studies' findings cannot be based …

Background Autism prevalence in the West is approximately 1% of school age children.
Autism prevalence in China has been reported to be lower than in the West. This is likely …

BackgroundRecent reports estimate the prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions in the UK
to be 1%. AimsTo use different methods to estimate the prevalence of autism-spectrum …

Studies of amniotic testosterone in humans suggest that fetal testosterone (fT) is related to
specific (but not all) sexually dimorphic aspects of cognition and behaviour. It has also been …

OBJECTIVE: The proportion of schoolchildren with mild social communicative deficits far
exceeds the number diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). We aimed to …

Purpose: While gender dysphoria (GD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are generally
identified in isolation, research on individuals who are gender-referred or have autism …

Background Difficulties in recognizing emotions and mental states are central characteristics
of autism spectrum conditions (ASC). However, emotion recognition (ER) studies have …

Background There is a marked male preponderance in autism spectrum conditions. The
extreme male brain theory and the fetal androgen theory of autism suggest that elevated …

Background Organophosphate (OP) pesticides act by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase activity
at synaptic junctions and have already been linked with deleterious effects on …