Objective The relationship between sex/gender differences and autism has attracted a
variety of research ranging from clinical and neurobiological to etiological, stimulated by the …

Background Many autistic individuals exhibit clinically-significant motor difficulties. Previous
reviews focused on overall motor ability or coordination, but with little attention paid to …

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that mainly affects social interaction and
communication. Evidence from behavioral and functional MRI studies supports the …

Autism has been largely portrayed as a psychiatric and childhood disorder. However, autism
is a lifelong neurological condition that evolves over time through highly heterogeneous …

In the last decade, Autism has broadened and often shifted its diagnostics criteria, allowing
several neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders of known etiology. This has resulted in …

The complexity and non-linear dynamics of socio-motor phenomena underlying social
interactions are often missed by observation methods that attempt to capture, describe, and …

Background: The approximate 5: 1 male to female ratio in clinical detection of Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) prevents research from characterizing the female phenotype …

The field of enacted/embodied cognition has emerged as a contemporary attempt to connect
the mind and body in the study of cognition. However, there has been a paucity of methods …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder defined by motor impairments
that include rigidity, systemic slowdown of movement (bradykinesia), postural problems, and …

Movement variability has emerged as a critical research component in the field of neural
motor control. This chapter explains why movement variability can be seen as such a rich …