Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis, management, and health services development

CM Murphy, CE Wilson, DM Robertson… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized
by pervasive difficulties since early childhood across reciprocal social communication and …

Head circumference and brain size in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis

R Sacco, S Gabriele, AM Persico - Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 2015 - Elsevier
Macrocephaly and brain overgrowth have been associated with autism spectrum disorder.
We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to provide an overall estimate of effect …

Autism and pervasive developmental disorders

FR Volkmar, C Lord, A Bailey… - Journal of child …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The quantity and quality of research into autism and related conditions have increased
dramatically in recent years. Consequently we selectively review key accomplishments and …

A review on cognitive and brain endophenotypes that may be common in autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and facilitate the search …

NNJ Rommelse, HM Geurts, B Franke… - Neuroscience & …, 2011 - Elsevier
We propose to bring together the hitherto rather separate research fields of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and argue that by …

Microduplications of 16p11. 2 are associated with schizophrenia

SE McCarthy, V Makarov, G Kirov, AM Addington… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Recurrent microdeletions and microduplications of a 600-kb genomic region of chromosome
16p11. 2 have been implicated in childhood-onset developmental disorders,,. We report the …

Psychosis and autism as diametrical disorders of the social brain

B Crespi, C Badcock - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2008 - cambridge.org
Autistic-spectrum conditions and psychotic-spectrum conditions (mainly schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, and major depression) represent two major suites of disorders of human …

Anatomical differences in the mirror neuron system and social cognition network in autism

N Hadjikhani, RM Joseph, J Snyder… - Cerebral …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with impaired
social and emotional skills, the anatomical substrate of which is still unknown. In this study …

Cognitive profiles and social‐communicative functioning in children with autism spectrum disorder

RM Joseph, H Tager‐Flusberg… - Journal of Child …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Whether there is an unusual degree of unevenness in the cognitive abilities of
children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and whether different cognitive profiles among …

Brain overgrowth in autism during a critical time in development: implications for frontal pyramidal neuron and interneuron development and connectivity

E Courchesne, K Pierce - International journal of developmental …, 2005 - Elsevier
While abnormalities in head circumference in autism have been observed for decades, it is
only recently that scientists have begun to focus in on the developmental origins of such a …

Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism

H Tager-Flusberg, RM Joseph - … transactions of the …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Autism is a complex disorder that is heterogeneous both in its phenotypic expression and its
etiology. The search for genes associated with autism and the neurobiological mechanisms …