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  1. Rett syndrome (RS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by mutations in the MECP2 gene. Patients with RS have severe motor abnormalities and are often unable to walk, use hands and speak. The prese...

    Authors: Daria Kostanian, Anna Rebreikina, Victoria Voinova and Olga Sysoeva
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:40
  2. Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an inherited neurocutaneous disorder caused by mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 genes, with patients often exhibiting neurodevelopmental (ND) manifestations termed TSC-associated ...

    Authors: Inci S. Aksoylu, Pauline Martin, Francis Robert, Krzysztof J. Szkop, Nicholas E. Redmond, Srirupa Bhattacharyya, Jennifer Wang, Shan Chen, Roberta L. Beauchamp, Irene Nobeli, Jerry Pelletier, Ola Larsson and Vijaya Ramesh
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:39
  3. Sensory over-responsivity (SOR) is an impairing sensory processing challenge in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) which shows heterogenous developmental trajectories and appears to improve into adulthood in some ...

    Authors: Melis E. Cakar, Kaitlin K. Cummings, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Mirella Dapretto and Shulamite A. Green
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:38
  4. Many studies have reported that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with atypical structural and functional connectivity. However, we know relatively little about the development of these differences ...

    Authors: Christian O’Reilly, Scott Huberty, Stefon van Noordt, James Desjardins, Nicky Wright, Julie Scorah, Sara Jane Webb and Mayada Elsabbagh
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:37
  5. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental conditions accompanied by differences in brain development. Neuroanatomical differences in autism are variable across individuals and likely underpin dist...

    Authors: Lisa M. Berg, Caroline Gurr, Johanna Leyhausen, Hanna Seelemeyer, Anke Bletsch, Tim Schaefer, Charlotte M. Pretzsch, Bethany Oakley, Eva Loth, Dorothea L. Floris, Jan K. Buitelaar, Christian F. Beckmann, Tobias Banaschewski, Tony Charman, Emily J. H. Jones, Julian Tillmann…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:36
  6. The poorer physical health of autistic adults compared to non-autistic adults has been highlighted by several epidemiological studies. However, research has so far been limited to specific geographical areas a...

    Authors: John H. Ward, Elizabeth Weir, Carrie Allison and Simon Baron-Cohen
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:35
  7. Many children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display touch defensiveness or avoidance (hypersensitivity), or engage in sensory seeking by touching people or objects (hyposensitivity). Abn...

    Authors: Xue Li, Shishuai Hao, Shimin Zou, Xiaomeng Tu, Weixi Kong, Tian Jiang and Jie-Guang Chen
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:34
  8. Neuroimaging analyses of brain structure and function in autism have typically been conducted in isolation, missing the sensitivity gains of linking data across modalities. Here we focus on the integration of ...

    Authors: Lennart M. Oblong, Alberto Llera, Ting Mei, Koen Haak, Christina Isakoglou, Dorothea L. Floris, Sarah Durston, Carolin Moessnang, Tobias Banaschewski, Simon Baron-Cohen, Eva Loth, Flavio Dell’Acqua, Tony Charman, Declan G. M. Murphy, Christine Ecker, Jan K. Buitelaar…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:32
  9. Differences in responding to sensory stimuli, including sensory hyperreactivity (HYPER), hyporeactivity (HYPO), and sensory seeking (SEEK) have been observed in autistic individuals across sensory modalities, ...

    Authors: Zachary J. Williams, Roseann Schaaf, Karla K. Ausderau, Grace T. Baranek, D. Jonah Barrett, Carissa J. Cascio, Rachel L. Dumont, Ekomobong E. Eyoh, Michelle D. Failla, Jacob I. Feldman, Jennifer H. Foss-Feig, Heather L. Green, Shulamite A. Green, Jason L. He, Elizabeth A. Kaplan-Kahn, Bahar Keçeli-Kaysılı…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:31
  10. Prenatal exposure to maternal metabolic conditions associated with inflammation and steroid dysregulation has previously been linked to increased autism risk. Steroid-related maternal serum biomarkers have als...

    Authors: Deborah A. Bilder, Whitney Worsham, Scott Sullivan, M. Sean Esplin, Paul Burghardt, Alison Fraser and Amanda V. Bakian
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:30
  11. Deletion of exon 2 of the trimethyllysine hydroxylase epsilon (TMLHE) gene was identified in probands with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). TMLHE encodes the first enzyme in carnitine biosynthesis, N6-trimethyllys...

    Authors: Edgars Liepinsh, Baiba Svalbe, Gundega Stelfa, Solveiga Grinberga, Liga Zvejniece, Helgi B. Schiöth and Maija Dambrova
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:29
  12. Phelan–McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability, and autistic-like behaviors and is primarily caused by haploinsufficiency of SHANK...

    Authors: Jessica Pagano, Silvia Landi, Alessia Stefanoni, Gabriele Nardi, Marica Albanesi, Helen F. Bauer, Enrico Pracucci, Michael Schön, Gian Michele Ratto, Tobias M. Boeckers, Carlo Sala and Chiara Verpelli
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:28
  13. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition related to brain development that affects a person’s perception and socialization with others. Here, we examined variability in the brain morphology in A...

    Authors: Yingying Xie, Jie Sun, Weiqi Man, Zhang Zhang and Ningnannan Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:27
  14. Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) is a rare condition diagnosed in children with two or more of the following: hypopituitarism, midline brain abnormalities, and optic nerve hypoplasia. Children with SOD experience v...

    Authors: Amy Mann, Arameh Aghababaie, Jennifer Kalitsi, Daniel Martins, Yannis Paloyelis and Ritika R. Kapoor
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:26
  15. Quantitative autistic traits are common, heritable, and continuously distributed across the general human population. Patterns of autistic traits within families suggest that more complex mechanisms than simpl...

    Authors: Joseph P. Garner, Catherine F. Talbot, Laura A. Del Rosso, Brenda McCowan, Sreetharan Kanthaswamy, David Haig, John P. Capitanio and Karen J. Parker
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:25
  16. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of highly heterogeneous neurodevelopmental diseases whose genetic etiology is not completely understood. Several investigations have relied on transcriptome analysis fro...

    Authors: Giovanni Spirito, Michele Filosi, Enrico Domenici, Damiano Mangoni, Stefano Gustincich and Remo Sanges
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:22
  17. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) patients experience disturbed nociception in the form of either hyposensitivity to pain or allodynia. A substantial amount of processing of somatosensory and nociceptive stimulu...

    Authors: Florian Olde Heuvel, Najwa Ouali Alami, Oumayma Aousji, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Peter K. Zahn, Hanna Wilhelm, Dhruva Deshpande, Elmira Khatamsaz, Alberto Catanese, Sarah Woelfle, Michael Schön, Sanjay Jain, Stefanie Grabrucker, Albert C. Ludolph, Chiara Verpelli, Jens Michaelis…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:21
  18. Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are heterogeneous conditions due to alterations of a variety of molecular mechanisms and cell dysfunctions. SETD5 haploinsufficiency leads to NDDs due to chromatin defects. Epi...

    Authors: Mattia Zaghi, Fabiana Longo, Luca Massimino, Alicia Rubio, Simone Bido, Pietro Giuseppe Mazzara, Edoardo Bellini, Federica Banfi, Paola Podini, Francesca Maltecca, Alessio Zippo, Vania Broccoli and Alessandro Sessa
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:20
  19. Genomic conditions can be associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and physical and mental health symptoms. They are individually rare and highly variable in pres...

    Authors: Nicholas Donnelly, Adam Cunningham, Sergio Marco Salas, Matthew Bracher-Smith, Samuel Chawner, Jan Stochl, Tamsin Ford, F. Lucy Raymond, Valentina Escott-Price and Marianne B. M. van den Bree
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:19
  20. The cerebellum contains more than 50% of all neurons in the brain and is involved in a broad range of cognitive functions, including social communication and social cognition. Inconsistent atypicalities in the...

    Authors: Yannis Elandaloussi, Dorothea L. Floris, Pierrick Coupé, Edouard Duchesnay, Angeline Mihailov, Antoine Grigis, Indrit Bègue, Julie Victor, Vincent Frouin, Marion Leboyer, Josselin Houenou and Charles Laidi
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:18

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  21. Autism spectrum condition and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are associated with a range of physical health conditions. The aim of this study was to examine the etiological components contribu...

    Authors: Pei-Yin Pan, Mark J. Taylor, Henrik Larsson, Catarina Almqvist, Paul Lichtenstein, Sebastian Lundström and Sven Bölte
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:17
  22. Intranasal administration of oxytocin is increasingly explored as a new approach to facilitate social development and reduce disability associated with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The effica...

    Authors: Nicky Daniels, Matthijs Moerkerke, Jean Steyaert, Annelies Bamps, Edward Debbaut, Jellina Prinsen, Tiffany Tang, Stephanie Van der Donck, Bart Boets and Kaat Alaerts
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:16
  23. Individuals on the autism spectrum have been long described to process sensory information differently than neurotypical individuals. While much effort has been leveraged towards characterizing and investigati...

    Authors: Jason L. He, Zachary J. Williams, Ashley Harris, Helen Powell, Roseann Schaaf, Teresa Tavassoli and Nicolaas A. J. Puts
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:15
  24. Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common inherited intellectual disability, is caused by the loss of expression of the Fragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein (FMRP). FMRP is an RNA-binding protein that negativ...

    Authors: Ricardo Martín, Alberto Samuel Suárez-Pinilla, Nuria García-Font, M. Luisa Laguna-Luque, Juan C. López-Ramos, María Jesús Oset-Gasque, Agnes Gruart, José M. Delgado-García, Magdalena Torres and José Sánchez-Prieto
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:14
  25. Autistic girls are underdiagnosed compared to autistic boys, even when they experience similar clinical impact. Research suggests that girls present with distinct symptom profiles across a variety of domains, ...

    Authors: Sunghye Cho, Meredith Cola, Azia Knox, Maggie Rose Pelella, Alison Russell, Aili Hauptmann, Maxine Covello, Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Robert T. Schultz and Julia Parish-Morris
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:13
  26. Suicidality is highly prevalent in autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disabilities, and high autistic traits are found in adults who have attempted suicide. However, prevalence rates for both au...

    Authors: Victoria Newell, Lucy Phillips, Chris Jones, Ellen Townsend, Caroline Richards and Sarah Cassidy
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:12
  27. Social and language abilities are closely intertwined during early typical development. In autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however, deficits in social and language development are early-age core symptoms. We p...

    Authors: Yaqiong Xiao, Teresa H. Wen, Lauren Kupis, Lisa T. Eyler, Vani Taluja, Jaden Troxel, Disha Goel, Michael V. Lombardo, Karen Pierce and Eric Courchesne
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:11
  28. Autism was formally recognized by the medical community in the first half of the twentieth century. Almost 100 years later, a small but growing literature has reported sex differences in the behavioral express...

    Authors: Hunter Mattern, Meredith Cola, Kimberly G. Tena, Azia Knox, Alison Russell, Maggie Rose Pelella, Aili Hauptmann, Maxine Covello, Julia Parish-Morris and Joseph P. McCleery
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:10
  29. Autistic children have been shown to have less complete definitions of friendships and higher levels of loneliness than their non-autistic peers. However, no known studies have explored sex differences in auti...

    Authors: Natalie Libster, Azia Knox, Selin Engin, Daniel Geschwind, Julia Parish-Morris and Connie Kasari
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:9
  30. Heterogeneous mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic are documented in the general population. Such heterogeneity has not been systematically assessed in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ...

    Authors: Bethany Vibert, Patricia Segura, Louise Gallagher, Stelios Georgiades, Panagiota Pervanidou, Audrey Thurm, Lindsay Alexander, Evdokia Anagnostou, Yuta Aoki, Catherine S. Birken, Somer L. Bishop, Jessica Boi, Carmela Bravaccio, Helena Brentani, Paola Canevini, Alessandra Carta…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:7
  31. Attenuated social attention is a key marker of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recent neuroimaging findings also emphasize an altered processing of sensory salience in ASD. The locus coeruleus–norepinephrine s...

    Authors: Nico Bast, Luke Mason, Christine Ecker, Sarah Baumeister, Tobias Banaschewski, Emily J. H. Jones, Declan G. M. Murphy, Jan K. Buitelaar, Eva Loth, Gahan Pandina and Christine M. Freitag
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:5
  32. Phenotypic studies have identified distinct patterns of autistic characteristics in genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability (ID), leading to diagnostic uncertainty and compromised access to a...

    Authors: Natali Bozhilova, Alice Welham, Dawn Adams, Stacey Bissell, Hilgo Bruining, Hayley Crawford, Kate Eden, Lisa Nelson, Christopher Oliver, Laurie Powis, Caroline Richards, Jane Waite, Peter Watson, Hefin Rhys, Lucy Wilde, Kate Woodcock…
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:3
  33. The long-described atypicalities of memory functioning experienced by people with autism have major implications for daily living, academic learning, as well as cognitive remediation. Though behavioral studies...

    Authors: Pierre Desaunay, Bérengère Guillery, Edgar Moussaoui, Francis Eustache, Dermot M. Bowler and Fabian Guénolé
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:2
  34. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is mainly characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication and repetitive behaviors. Known causes of ASD are mutations of certain risk genes like the postsynapti...

    Authors: Ekaterina Atanasova, Andrea Pérez Arévalo, Ines Graf, Rong Zhang, Juergen Bockmann, Anne-Kathrin Lutz and Tobias M. Boeckers
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2023 14:1
  35. Autism spectrum disorder (autism) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition with pronounced behavioral, cognitive, and neural heterogeneities across individuals. Here, our goal was to characterize heterogeneit...

    Authors: Tristan Looden, Dorothea L. Floris, Alberto Llera, Roselyne J. Chauvin, Tony Charman, Tobias Banaschewski, Declan Murphy, Andre. F. Marquand, Jan K. Buitelaar and Christian F. Beckmann
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:53
  36. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with considerable clinical heterogeneity. This study aimed to explore the heterogeneity of ASD based on inter-individual heterogeneity of functio...

    Authors: Xiaonan Guo, Guangjin Zhai, Junfeng Liu, Yabo Cao, Xia Zhang, Dong Cui and Le Gao
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:52
  37. Autistic children report higher levels of bullying victimization than their non-autistic peers. However, autistic children with fewer social difficulties, as measured on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Sched...

    Authors: Natalie Libster, Azia Knox, Selin Engin, Daniel Geschwind, Julia Parish-Morris and Connie Kasari
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:51
  38. The 1.6 Mb 3q29 deletion is associated with neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric phenotypes, including a 19-fold increased risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Previous work by our team identified eleva...

    Authors: Rebecca M. Pollak, Jordan E. Pincus, T. Lindsey Burrell, Joseph F. Cubells, Cheryl Klaiman, Melissa M. Murphy, Celine A. Saulnier, Elaine F. Walker, Stormi Pulver White and Jennifer G. Mulle
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:50
  39. Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a common single gene cause of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. Cognitive inflexibility is one of the hallmarks of FXS with affected individuals showing extreme ...

    Authors: Antonis Asiminas, Sam A. Booker, Owen R. Dando, Zrinko Kozic, Daisy Arkell, Felicity H. Inkpen, Anna Sumera, Irem Akyel, Peter C. Kind and Emma R. Wood
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:49
  40. Elevated or reduced responses to sensory stimuli, known as sensory features, are common in autistic individuals and often impact quality of life. Little is known about the neurobiological basis of sensory feat...

    Authors: Olivia Surgent, Ali Riaz, Karla K. Ausderau, Nagesh Adluru, Gregory R. Kirk, Jose Guerrero-Gonzalez, Emily C. Skaletski, Steven R. Kecskemeti, Douglas C Dean III, Susan Ellis Weismer, Andrew L. Alexander and Brittany G. Travers
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:48
  41. Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the leading inherited monogenic cause of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. Executive function (EF), necessary for adaptive goal-oriented behavior and dependent o...

    Authors: Lauren M. Schmitt, Joy Li, Rui Liu, Paul S. Horn, John A. Sweeney, Craig A. Erickson and Ernest V. Pedapati
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:47
  42. Autism is proposed to be characterised by an atypical balance of cortical excitation and inhibition (E/I). However, most studies have examined E/I alterations in older autistic individuals, meaning that findin...

    Authors: Virginia Carter Leno, Jannath Begum-Ali, Amy Goodwin, Luke Mason, Greg Pasco, Andrew Pickles, Shruti Garg, Jonathan Green, Tony Charman, Mark H. Johnson and Emily J. H. Jones
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:46
  43. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been linked with a higher risk of suicide attempts in autistic and non-autistic people. In the general population, NSSI may confer acquired capability for suicide by eroding...

    Authors: Rachel L. Moseley, Nicola J. Gregory, Paula Smith, Carrie Allison, Sarah Cassidy and Simon Baron-Cohen
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:45
  44. There has been a growing interest in the association between maternal levels of vitamin D during pregnancy and offspring autism. However, whether any associations reflect causal effects is still inconclusive.

    Authors: Paul Madley-Dowd, Christina Dardani, Robyn E. Wootton, Kyle Dack, Tom Palmer, Rupert Thurston, Alexandra Havdahl, Jean Golding, Deborah Lawlor and Dheeraj Rai
    Citation: Molecular Autism 2022 13:44

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