Autism Spectrum Disorder

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine alterations in the human postmortem brains of autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A Gain-of-Function Mutation in KCNMA1 Causes Dystonia Spells Controlled With Stimulant Therapy. 
  • A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Effects of Intervention Intensity and Intervention Style on Outcomes for Young Children With Autism. 
  • A Multisite Randomized Controlled Two-Phase Trial of the Early Start Denver Model Compared to Treatment as Usual. 
  • A Phase II Randomized Clinical Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Umbilical Cord Blood Infusion for Treatment of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • A Preliminary Psychometric Analysis of the Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) Among Autistic Adolescents and Adults: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity. 
  • A Protocol for Sedation Free MRI and PET Imaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • A Review of the Default Mode Network in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. 
  • A Six-Minute Measure of Vocalizations in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • A Survey of Information Source Preferences of Parents of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • A Virtual Joy-Stick Study of Emotional Responses and Social Motivation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • A lost generation? The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early career ASD researchers. 
  • A novel method for measuring learning opportunities provided by parents to young children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A pilot investigation of an iOS-based app for toilet training children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A scalable computational approach to assessing response to name in toddlers with autism. 
  • ANK2 autism mutation targeting giant ankyrin-B promotes axon branching and ectopic connectivity. 
  • Altered mGluR5-Homer scaffolds and corticostriatal connectivity in a Shank3 complete knockout model of autism. 
  • An analysis of stereotypical motor movements and cardiovascular coupling in individuals on the autism spectrum. 
  • Assessment of outcomes in autism clinical trials over the course of development. 
  • Associations between parental broader autism phenotype and child autism spectrum disorder phenotype in the Study to Explore Early Development. 
  • At a Crossroads-Reconsidering the Goals of Autism Early Behavioral Intervention From a Neurodiversity Perspective. 
  • Atypical postural control can be detected via computer vision analysis in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Autism Behavior Inventory: A Novel Tool for Assessing Core and Associated Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Autism spectrum disorder in sub-saharan africa: A comprehensive scoping review. 
  • Autism, Psychosis, or Both? Unraveling Complex Patient Presentations. 
  • Autism-associated mutation in Hevin/Sparcl1 induces endoplasmic reticulum stress through structural instability. 
  • Autism-spectrum traits in neurotypicals predict the embodiment of manipulation knowledge about object concepts: Evidence from eyetracking. 
  • Autistic traits are associated with faster pace of aging: Evidence from the Dunedin study at age 45. 
  • Autologous Cord Blood Infusions Are Safe and Feasible in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results of a Single-Center Phase I Open-Label Trial. 
  • Automated recognition of spontaneous facial expression in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: parsing response variability. 
  • Automatic Recognition of Posed Facial Expression of Emotion in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Beyond infection - Maternal immune activation by environmental factors, microglial development, and relevance for autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Brain region-specific disruption of Shank3 in mice reveals a dissociation for cortical and striatal circuits in autism-related behaviors. 
  • Brief Report: Can a Composite Heart Rate Variability Biomarker Shed New Insights About Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-Aged Children? 
  • Brief Report: Classifying Rates of Students with Autism and Intellectual Disability in North Carolina: Roles of Race and Economic Disadvantage. 
  • Brief Report: Executive Function as a Predictor of Academic Achievement in School-Aged Children with ASD. 
  • Brief Report: Pilot Study of a Novel Interactive Digital Treatment to Improve Cognitive Control in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Co-occurring ADHD Symptoms. 
  • Brief Report: Remotely Delivered Video Modeling for Improving Oral Hygiene in Children with ASD: A Pilot Study. 
  • Cannabis alters DNA methylation at maternally imprinted and autism candidate genes in spermatogenic cells. 
  • Cell therapy for diverse central nervous system disorders: inherited metabolic diseases and autism. 
  • Cell-Type-Specific Analysis of Molecular Pathology in Autism Identifies Common Genes and Pathways Affected Across Neocortical Regions. 
  • Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of depression in autism spectrum disorders across the lifespan. 
  • Changes in cardiovascular health and physical fitness in ethnic youth with intellectual disabilities participating in a park-based afterschool programme for two years. 
  • Clinical Validation of the Autism Behavior Inventory: Caregiver-Rated Assessment of Core and Associated Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Combining natural language processing and network analysis to examine how advocacy organizations stimulate conversation on social media. 
  • Complexity analysis of head movements in autistic toddlers. 
  • Computational Methods to Measure Patterns of Gaze in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Computer vision analysis captures atypical attention in toddlers with autism. 
  • Computer-Assisted Face Processing Instruction Improves Emotion Recognition, Mentalizing, and Social Skills in Students with ASD. 
  • Cost Offset Associated With Early Start Denver Model for Children With Autism. 
  • DNA Methylation and Susceptibility to Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Defining the genotypic and phenotypic spectrum of X-linked MSL3-related disorder. 
  • Digital Behavioral Phenotyping Detects Atypical Pattern of Facial Expression in Toddlers with Autism. 
  • Distance from Typical Scan Path When Viewing Complex Stimuli in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and its Association with Behavior. 
  • Distributional Properties and Criterion Validity of a Shortened Version of the Social Responsiveness Scale: Results from the ECHO Program and Implications for Social Communication Research. 
  • Drug development for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Progress, challenges, and future directions. 
  • Early Life Exposure to Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Findings from a Multisite Case-Control Study. 
  • Early event-related potentials to emotional faces differ for adults with autism spectrum disorder and by serotonin transporter genotype. 
  • Early intervention for very young children with or at high likelihood for autism spectrum disorder: An overview of reviews. 
  • Early motor abilities in infants at heightened versus low risk for ASD: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) study. 
  • Early negative affect in males and females with fragile X syndrome: implications for anxiety and autism. 
  • Educational classifications of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability among school-aged children in North Carolina: Associations with race, rurality, and resource availability. 
  • Electrophysiological Biomarkers Predict Clinical Improvement in an Open-Label Trial Assessing Efficacy of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood for Treatment of Autism. 
  • Elevated Autism Spectrum Disorder Traits in Young Children with OCD. 
  • Emotional Feedback and the Viral Spread of Social Media Messages About Autism Spectrum Disorders. 
  • Epigenetic dysregulation of Oxtr in Tet1-deficient mice has implications for neuropsychiatric disorders. 
  • Epigenetics and autism spectrum disorder: A report of an autism case with mutation in H1 linker histone HIST1H1E and literature review. 
  • Executive function predicts the development of play skills for verbal preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Experiences of student and trainee autism researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Exploring new therapies for children with autism: "Do no harm" does not mean do not try. 
  • Eye Tracking Reveals Impaired Attentional Disengagement Associated with Sensory Response Patterns in Children with Autism. 
  • Family members' experience of well-being as racial/ethnic minorities raising a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder: A qualitative meta-synthesis. 
  • Gastrointestinal problems are associated with increased repetitive behaviors but not social communication difficulties in young children with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Genes with high penetrance for syndromic and non-syndromic autism typically function within the nucleus and regulate gene expression. 
  • Geographic Patterns of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children of Participants in Nurses' Health Study II. 
  • Higher Risk of Mortality for Individuals Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Demands a Public Health Prevention Strategy. 
  • How does autism spectrum disorder affect the risk and severity of childhood asthma? 
  • Identification of amygdala-expressed genes associated with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Identifying Predictors of Momentary Negative Affect and Depression Severity in Adolescents with Autism: An Exploratory Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. 
  • Impact of a digital Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers-Revised on likelihood and age of autism diagnosis and referral for developmental evaluation. 
  • Increased emotional eating behaviors in children with autism: Sex differences and links with dietary variety. 
  • Inequities in Receipt of the North Carolina Medicaid Waiver Among Individuals with Intellectual Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Infant EEG theta modulation predicts childhood intelligence. 
  • Infusion of human umbilical cord tissue mesenchymal stromal cells in children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Interactions of innate and adaptive immunity in brain development and function. 
  • Intranasal Oxytocin in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Long-Term Outcomes of Early Intervention in 6-Year-Old Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Longitudinal cortical development during adolescence and young adulthood in autism spectrum disorder: increased cortical thinning but comparable surface area changes. 
  • Massively parallel sequencing of patients with intellectual disability, congenital anomalies and/or autism spectrum disorders with a targeted gene panel. 
  • Maternal metabolic risk factors for autism spectrum disorder-An analysis of electronic medical records and linked birth data. 
  • Measuring robustness of brain networks in autism spectrum disorder with Ricci curvature. 
  • Measuring social communication behaviors as a treatment endpoint in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Meeting the Mental Health Needs of College Students with ASD: A Survey of University and College Counseling Center Directors. 
  • Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia. 
  • Methodological considerations in the use of Noldus EthoVision XT video tracking of children with autism in multi-site studies. 
  • Modeling regional dynamics in low-frequency fluctuation and its application to Autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. 
  • Mouse Cntnap2 and Human CNTNAP2 ASD Alleles Cell Autonomously Regulate PV+ Cortical Interneurons. 
  • Multiple functional networks modeling for autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. 
  • Mutations of the histone linker H1-4 in neurodevelopmental disorders and functional characterization of neurons expressing C-terminus frameshift mutant H1.4. 
  • NCKAP1 Disruptive Variants Lead to a Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Core Features of Autism. 
  • Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: Empirically Validated Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Neural circuit pathology driven by Shank3 mutation disrupts social behaviors. 
  • Neurodiversity and Early Autism-Reply. 
  • Parent-Endorsed Sex Differences in Toddlers with and Without ASD: Utilizing the M-CHAT. 
  • Parent-delivered early intervention in infants at risk for ASD: Effects on electrophysiological and habituation measures of social attention. 
  • Person Ability Scores as an Alternative to Norm-Referenced Scores as Outcome Measures in Studies of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 
  • Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Potential for Digital Behavioral Measurement Tools to Transform the Detection and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Potential neural mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Practice guideline: Treatment for insomnia and disrupted sleep behavior in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. 
  • Pragmatic adaptations of telehealth-delivered caregiver coaching for children with autism in the context of COVID-19: Perspectives from the United States and South Africa. 
  • Promoting social attention in 3-year-olds with ASD through gaze-contingent eye tracking. 
  • Prospective Longitudinal Studies of Infant Siblings of Children With Autism: Lessons Learned and Future Directions. 
  • Providing early detection and early intervention for autism spectrum disorder in South Africa: stakeholder perspectives from the Western Cape province. 
  • Rationale, design, and methods of the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) network Study of Oxytocin in Autism to improve Reciprocal Social Behaviors (SOARS-B). 
  • Recognizing vitamin A deficiency: special considerations in low-prevalence areas. 
  • Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
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  • Rigidity and Sensory Sensitivity: Independent Contributions to Selective Eating in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults. 
  • Scn2a severe hypomorphic mutation decreases excitatory synaptic input and causes autism-associated behaviors. 
  • Sensory hypersensitivity predicts enhanced attention capture by faces in the early development of ASD. 
  • Shorter average look durations to dynamic social stimuli are associated with higher levels of autism symptoms in young autistic children. 
  • Sleep Problems and Trajectories of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. 
  • Social attention to activities in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder: effects of context and age. 
  • Social impairments in alternating hemiplegia of childhood. 
  • Social origins of self-regulated attention during infancy and their disruption in autism spectrum disorder: Implications for early intervention. 
  • Stem cell therapies in cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Supporting the needs of college students with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • TH2 sensitization in the skin-gut-brain axis: How early-life Th2-mediated inflammation may negatively perpetuate developmental and psychologic abnormalities. 
  • The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials: Initial Evaluation of a Battery of Candidate EEG Biomarkers. 
  • The Broader Autism Phenotype in Mothers is Associated with Increased Discordance Between Maternal-Reported and Clinician-Observed Instruments that Measure Child Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • The Complex Etiology of Autism Presents Challenges in Risk Communication. 
  • The Early Start Denver Model Intervention and Mu Rhythm Attenuation in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 
  • The autism biomarkers consortium for clinical trials: evaluation of a battery of candidate eye-tracking biomarkers for use in autism clinical trials. 
  • The effects of intranasal oxytocin on reward circuitry responses in children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • The global coverage of prevalence data for mental disorders in children and adolescents. 
  • The importance of context in early autism intervention: A qualitative South African study. 
  • The puzzling aspects of anesthesia and autism spectrum disorder. 
  • The relationship between autism symptoms and arousal level in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder, as measured by electrodermal activity. 
  • The role of Hipk2-p53 pathways in arsenic-induced autistic behaviors: A translational study from rats to humans. 
  • Toilet Training in Fragile X Syndrome. 
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in autism spectrum disorder: Challenges, promise, and roadmap for future research. 
  • Translating neuroscience to the front lines: point-of-care detection of neuropsychiatric disorders. 
  • Unexplained regression in Down syndrome: 35 cases from an international Down syndrome database. 
  • Use of a Digital Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers - Revised with Follow-up to Improve Quality of Screening for Autism. 
  • Using machine learning to identify patterns of lifetime health problems in decedents with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Validation of eye-tracking measures of social attention as a potential biomarker for autism clinical trials. 
  • Visual Exploration in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Exploring Age Differences and Dynamic Features Using Recurrence Quantification Analysis. 
  • Visual Preference for Biological Motion in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study. 
  • White Matter Tract Changes Associated with Clinical Improvement in an Open-Label Trial Assessing Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood for Treatment of Young Children with Autism. 
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  • McHenry, Jenna Ann, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience