Autism spectrum disorder

C Lord, TS Brugha, T Charman, J Cusack… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder is a construct used to describe individuals with a specific
combination of impairments in social communication and repetitive behaviours, highly …

Circuits for social learning: A unified model and application to Autism Spectrum Disorder

MM DeMayo, LJ Young, IB Hickie, YJC Song… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Early life social experiences shape neural pathways in infants to develop lifelong social
skills. This review presents the first unified circuit-based model of social learning that can be …

A pivotal response treatment package for children with autism spectrum disorder: An RCT

GW Gengoux, DA Abrams, R Schuck, ME Millan… - …, 2019 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a pivotal
response treatment package (PRT-P) consisting of parent training and clinician-delivered in …

[LIVRE][B] Encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders

FR Volkmar - 2021 - Springer
FR Volkmar (ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, https://doi. org/10.1007/978-
3-319-91280-6 home that may be poisonous. Both at home and school, the Poison Control …

Neurodiversity

N Chown - Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2021 - Springer
A narrative assessment is the analysis of a story told by an individual to assess language
and communication. A narrative can be used to measure pragmatic language use because it …

Neural mechanisms of behavioral change in young adults with high‐functioning autism receiving virtual reality social cognition training: A pilot study

YJD Yang, T Allen, SM Abdullahi, KA Pelphrey… - Autism …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring treatment efficacy in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) relies
primarily on behaviors, with limited evidence as to the neural mechanisms underlying these …

Atypical longitudinal development of functional connectivity in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

KE Lawrence, LM Hernandez, SY Bookheimer… - Autism …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is consistently associated with alterations in brain
connectivity, but there are conflicting results as to where and when individuals with ASD …

Pivotal response treatment for autism spectrum disorder: current perspectives

J Lei, P Ventola - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Pivotal response treatment (PRT) is an evidence-based behavioral intervention based on
applied behavior analysis principles aimed to improve social communication skills in …

Neurodevelopmental disorders affecting sociability: Recent research advances and future directions in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome

G Vivanti, T Hamner, NR Lee - Current Neurology and Neuroscience …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review In this review, we summarize current knowledge and
hypotheses on the nature of social abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and …

Abnormal visual attention to simple social stimuli in 4-month-old infants at high risk for Autism

E Di Giorgio, O Rosa-Salva, E Frasnelli, A Calcagnì… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Despite an increasing interest in detecting early signs of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD),
the pathogenesis of the social impairments characterizing ASD is still largely unknown …