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Molecular Autism

Ausgabe 1/2020

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Sex differences in brain structure: a twin study on restricted and repetitive behaviors in twin pairs with and without autism

  • Open Access
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Annelies van’t Westeinde, Élodie Cauvet, Roberto Toro, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Janina Neufeld, Katell Mevel, Sven Bölte

TSC patient-derived isogenic neural progenitor cells reveal altered early neurodevelopmental phenotypes and rapamycin-induced MNK-eIF4E signaling

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Pauline Martin, Vilas Wagh, Surya A. Reis, Serkan Erdin, Roberta L. Beauchamp, Ghalib Shaikh, Michael Talkowski, Elizabeth Thiele, Steven D. Sheridan, Stephen J. Haggarty, Vijaya Ramesh

A comparative study of autistic and non-autistic women’s experience of motherhood

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A. L. Pohl, S. K. Crockford, M. Blakemore, C. Allison, S. Baron-Cohen

Biophysical classification of a CACNA1D de novo mutation as a high-risk mutation for a severe neurodevelopmental disorder

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Nadja T. Hofer, Petronel Tuluc, Nadine J. Ortner, Yuliia V. Nikonishyna, Monica L. Fernándes-Quintero, Klaus R. Liedl, Bernhard E. Flucher, Helen Cox, Jörg Striessnig

Children with autism spectrum disorder produce more ambiguous and less socially meaningful facial expressions: an experimental study using random forest classifiers

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Charline Grossard, Arnaud Dapogny, David Cohen, Sacha Bernheim, Estelle Juillet, Fanny Hamel, Stéphanie Hun, Jérémy Bourgeois, Hugues Pellerin, Sylvie Serret, Kevin Bailly, Laurence Chaby

Behavioral effects of multiple-dose oxytocin treatment in autism: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial with long-term follow-up

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Sylvie Bernaerts, Bart Boets, Guy Bosmans, Jean Steyaert, Kaat Alaerts

Maternal blood folate status during early pregnancy and occurrence of autism spectrum disorder in offspring: a study of 62 serum biomarkers

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Olga Egorova, Robin Myte, Jörn Schneede, Bruno Hägglöf, Sven Bölte, Erik Domellöf, Barbro Ivars A’roch, Fredrik Elgh, Per Magne Ueland, Sven-Arne Silfverdal

Persistence and predictors of self-injurious behaviour in autism: a ten-year prospective cohort study

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Catherine Laverty, Chris Oliver, Jo Moss, Lisa Nelson, Caroline Richards

Age-variant and age-invariant features of functional brain organization in middle-aged and older autistic adults

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Joe Bathelt, P. Cédric Koolschijn, Hilde M. Geurts

Profiling parvalbumin interneurons using iPSC: challenges and perspectives for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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  • Viewpoint

Federica Filice, Beat Schwaller, Tanja M. Michel, Edna Grünblatt

Reduced nonverbal interpersonal synchrony in autism spectrum disorder independent of partner diagnosis: a motion energy study

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A. L. Georgescu, S. Koeroglu, A. F de C Hamilton, K. Vogeley, C. M. Falter-Wagner, W. Tschacher

Serotonergic innervation of the amygdala is increased in autism spectrum disorder and decreased in Williams syndrome

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C. H. Lew, K. M. Groeniger, K. L. Hanson, D. Cuevas, D. M. Z. Greiner, B. Hrvoj-Mihic, U. Bellugi, C. M. Schumann, K. Semendeferi

Transcriptomics of Gabra4 knockout mice reveals common NMDAR pathways underlying autism, memory, and epilepsy

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Cuixia Fan, Yue Gao, Guanmei Liang, Lang Huang, Jing Wang, Xiaoxue Yang, Yiwu Shi, Ursula C. Dräger, Mei Zhong, Tian-Ming Gao, Xinping Yang

Links between self-injury and suicidality in autism

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R. L. Moseley, N. J. Gregory, P. Smith, C. Allison, S. Baron-Cohen

Quantifying compensatory strategies in adults with and without diagnosed autism

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Lucy Anne Livingston, Punit Shah, Victoria Milner, Francesca Happé

Recent advances in human stem cell-based modeling of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

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  • Review

Wardiya Afshar Saber, Mustafa Sahin

Social brain activation during mentalizing in a large autism cohort: the Longitudinal European Autism Project

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Carolin Moessnang, Sarah Baumeister, Julian Tillmann, David Goyard, Tony Charman, Sara Ambrosino, Simon Baron-Cohen, Christian Beckmann, Sven Bölte, Carsten Bours, Daisy Crawley, Flavio Dell’Acqua, Sarah Durston, Christine Ecker, Vincent Frouin, Hannah Hayward, Rosemary Holt, Mark Johnson, Emily Jones, Meng-Chuan Lai, Michael V. Lombardo, Luke Mason, Marianne Oldenhinkel, Antonio Persico, Antonia San José Cáceres, Will Spooren, Eva Loth, Declan G. M. Murphy, Jan K. Buitelaar, Tobias Banaschewski, Daniel Brandeis, Heike Tost, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

Revised scored Sensory Perception Quotient reveals sensory hypersensitivity in women with autism

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Emily Taylor, Rosemary Holt, Teresa Tavassoli, Chris Ashwin, Simon Baron-Cohen

Effects of oxytocin administration on salivary sex hormone levels in autistic and neurotypical women

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Tanya L. Procyshyn, Michael V. Lombardo, Meng-Chuan Lai, Bonnie Auyeung, Sarah K. Crockford, J Deakin, S. Soubramanian, A Sule, Simon Baron-Cohen, Richard A. I. Bethlehem

Loss of the neurodevelopmental disease-associated gene miR-146a impairs neural progenitor differentiation and causes learning and memory deficits

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Julien Fregeac, Stéphanie Moriceau, Antoine Poli, Lam Son Nguyen, Franck Oury, Laurence Colleaux

SCN2A channelopathies in the autism spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders: a role for pluripotent stem cells?

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Karina A. Kruth, Tierney M. Grisolano, Christopher A. Ahern, Aislinn J. Williams

Developmental changes in attention to social information from childhood to adolescence in autism spectrum disorders: a comparative study

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Toru Fujioka, Kenji J. Tsuchiya, Manabu Saito, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Muneaki Matsuo, Mitsuru Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Maegaki, Damee Choi, Sumi Kato, Tokiko Yoshida, Yuko Yoshimura, Sawako Ooba, Yoshifumi Mizuno, Shinichiro Takiguchi, Hideo Matsuzaki, Akemi Tomoda, Katsuyuki Shudo, Masaru Ninomiya, Taiichi Katayama, Hirotaka Kosaka

The relationship of autistic traits to taste and olfactory processing in anorexia nervosa

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Emma Kinnaird, Catherine Stewart, Kate Tchanturia

Human in vitro models for understanding mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder

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Aaron Gordon, Daniel H. Geschwind

Inattention and hyperactive/impulsive component scores do not differentiate between autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a clinical sample

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Aneta D. Krakowski, Katherine Tombeau Cost, Evdokia Anagnostou, Meng-Chuan Lai, Jennifer Crosbie, Russell Schachar, Stelios Georgiades, Eric Duku, Peter Szatmari

Effects of bumetanide on neurodevelopmental impairments in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex: an open-label pilot study

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Dorinde M. van Andel, Jan J. Sprengers, Bob Oranje, Floortje E. Scheepers, Floor E. Jansen, Hilgo Bruining

Automated recognition of spontaneous facial expression in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: parsing response variability

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Abigail Bangerter, Meenakshi Chatterjee, Joseph Manfredonia, Nikolay V. Manyakov, Seth Ness, Matthew A. Boice, Andrew Skalkin, Matthew S. Goodwin, Geraldine Dawson, Robert Hendren, Bennett Leventhal, Frederick Shic, Gahan Pandina

Modeling neuronal consequences of autism-associated gene regulatory variants with human induced pluripotent stem cells

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P. Joel Ross, Rebecca S. F. Mok, Brandon S. Smith, Deivid C. Rodrigues, Marat Mufteev, Stephen W. Scherer, James Ellis

Effectiveness of a modified group cognitive behavioral therapy program for anxiety in children with ASD delivered in a community context

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Abbie Solish, Nora Klemencic, Anne Ritzema, Vicki Nolan, Martha Pilkington, Evdokia Anagnostou, Jessica Brian

Prevalence and cumulative incidence of autism spectrum disorders and the patterns of co-occurring neurodevelopmental disorders in a total population sample of 5-year-old children

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Manabu Saito, Tomoya Hirota, Yui Sakamoto, Masaki Adachi, Michio Takahashi, Ayako Osato-Kaneda, Young Shin Kim, Bennett Leventhal, Amy Shui, Sumi Kato, Kazuhiko Nakamura

Age-related differences in white matter diffusion measures in autism spectrum condition

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Abigail Thompson, Asal Shahidiani, Anne Fritz, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, Lindsay Walker, Vera D’Almeida, Clodagh Murphy, Eileen Daly, Declan Murphy, Steve Williams, Sean Deoni, Christine Ecker

Quantitative proteomic analysis of Rett iPSC-derived neuronal progenitors

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Suzy Varderidou-Minasian, Lisa Hinz, Dominique Hagemans, Danielle Posthuma, Maarten Altelaar, Vivi M. Heine

Identification of amygdala-expressed genes associated with autism spectrum disorder

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Maria Jesus Herrero, Dmitry Velmeshev, David Hernandez-Pineda, Saarthak Sethi, Shawn Sorrells, Payal Banerjee, Catherine Sullivan, Abha R. Gupta, Arnold R. Kriegstein, Joshua G. Corbin

Elevated de novo protein synthesis in FMRP-deficient human neurons and its correction by metformin treatment

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Kagistia Hana Utami, Nur Amirah Binte Mohammad Yusof, Jing Eugene Kwa, Ulla-Kaisa Peteri, Maija L. Castrén, Mahmoud A. Pouladi

Copy number variants (CNVs): a powerful tool for iPSC-based modelling of ASD

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Danijela Drakulic, Srdjan Djurovic, Yasir Ahmed Syed, Sebastiano Trattaro, Nicolò Caporale, Anna Falk, Rivka Ofir, Vivi M. Heine, Samuel J. R. A. Chawner, Antonio Rodriguez-Moreno, Marianne B. M. van den Bree, Giuseppe Testa, Spyros Petrakis, Adrian J. Harwood

Decreased nuclear Pten in neural stem cells contributes to deficits in neuronal maturation

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Shin Chung Kang, Ritika Jaini, Masahiro Hitomi, Hyunpil Lee, Nick Sarn, Stetson Thacker, Charis Eng

Electronic communication in autism spectrum conditions

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  • Letter to the Editor

Lucy Anne Livingston, Chris Ashwin, Punit Shah

Transcriptional consequences of MBD5 disruption in mouse brain and CRISPR-derived neurons

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Catarina M. Seabra, Tatsiana Aneichyk, Serkan Erdin, Derek J. C. Tai, Celine E. F. De Esch, Parisa Razaz, Yu An, Poornima Manavalan, Ashok Ragavendran, Alexei Stortchevoi, Clemer Abad, Juan I. Young, Patricia Maciel, Michael E. Talkowski, James F. Gusella

Neuroanatomical underpinnings of autism symptomatology in carriers and non-carriers of the 22q11.2 microdeletion

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Maria Gudbrandsen, Anke Bletsch, Caroline Mann, Eileen Daly, Clodagh M. Murphy, Vladimira Stoencheva, Charlotte E. Blackmore, Maria Rogdaki, Leila Kushan, Carrie E. Bearden, Declan G. M. Murphy, Michael C. Craig, Christine Ecker

Defining clusters of young autistic and typically developing children based on loudness-dependent auditory electrophysiological responses

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Patrick Dwyer, Xiaodong Wang, Rosanna De Meo-Monteil, Fushing Hsieh, Clifford D. Saron, Susan M. Rivera

Sex differences in the first impressions made by girls and boys with autism

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Meredith L. Cola, Samantha Plate, Lisa Yankowitz, Victoria Petrulla, Leila Bateman, Casey J. Zampella, Ashley de Marchena, Juhi Pandey, Robert T. Schultz, Julia Parish-Morris

The sociability spectrum: evidence from reciprocal genetic copy number variations

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Alejandro López-Tobón, Sebastiano Trattaro, Giuseppe Testa

Evidence against the “normalization” prediction of the early brain overgrowth hypothesis of autism

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Lisa D. Yankowitz, John D. Herrington, Benjamin E. Yerys, Joseph A. Pereira, Juhi Pandey, Robert T. Schultz

Cortical neurons derived from human pluripotent stem cells lacking FMRP display altered spontaneous firing patterns

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Shreya Das Sharma, Rakhi Pal, Bharath Kumar Reddy, Bhuvaneish T. Selvaraj, Nisha Raj, Krishna Kumar Samaga, Durga J. Srinivasan, Loren Ornelas, Dhruv Sareen, Matthew R. Livesey, Gary J. Bassell, Clive N. Svendsen, Peter C. Kind, Siddharthan Chandran, Sumantra Chattarji, David J. A. Wyllie

Transcriptional signatures of participant-derived neural progenitor cells and neurons implicate altered Wnt signaling in Phelan-McDermid syndrome and autism

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Michael S. Breen, Andrew Browne, Gabriel E. Hoffman, Sofia Stathopoulos, Kristen Brennand, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Elodie Drapeau

Advanced paternal age as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: a translational study

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Axel Krug, Markus Wöhr, Dominik Seffer, Henrike Rippberger, A. Özge Sungur, Bruno Dietsche, Frederike Stein, Sugirthan Sivalingam, Andreas J. Forstner, Stephanie H. Witt, Helene Dukal, Fabian Streit, Anna Maaser, Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach, Till F. M. Andlauer, Stefan Herms, Per Hoffmann, Marcella Rietschel, Markus M. Nöthen, Martin Lackinger, Gerhard Schratt, Michael Koch, Rainer K. W. Schwarting, Tilo Kircher

IGF-1 treatment causes unique transcriptional response in neurons from individuals with idiopathic autism

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Sara B. Linker, Ana P. D. Mendes, Maria C. Marchetto

Reduced auditory steady state responses in autism spectrum disorder

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R. A. Seymour, G. Rippon, G. Gooding-Williams, P. F. Sowman, K. Kessler

Gender identity, sexual orientation and adverse sexual experiences in autistic females

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Laura A. Pecora, Grace I. Hancock, Merrilyn Hooley, David H. Demmer, Tony Attwood, Gary B. Mesibov, Mark A. Stokes

Cerebral organoids as tools to identify the developmental roots of autism

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Wai Kit Chan, Rosie Griffiths, David J. Price, John O. Mason

Coping, fostering resilience, and driving care innovation for autistic people and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Stephanie H. Ameis, Meng-Chuan Lai, Benoit H. Mulsant, Peter Szatmari

Targeting PPARα in the rat valproic acid model of autism: focus on social motivational impairment and sex-related differences

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Simona Scheggi, Francesca Guzzi, Giulia Braccagni, Maria Graziella De Montis, Marco Parenti, Carla Gambarana

Alexithymia may explain the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder psychopathology

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L. Vuillier, Z. Carter, A. R. Teixeira, R. L. Moseley

Development of the Signposting Questionnaire for Autism (SQ-A): measurement comparison with the 10-item Autism Spectrum Quotient-Child and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK and Latvia

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Catherine R. G. Jones, Sarah L. Barrett, Ieva Bite, Maria Legzdina, Kristina Arina, Andrea Higgins, Kyla Honey, Sarah J. Carrington, Dale Hay, Johanna Condon, Susan R. Leekam

Placebo response in pharmacological and dietary supplement trials of autism spectrum disorder (ASD): systematic review and meta-regression analysis

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Spyridon Siafis, Oğulcan Çıray, Johannes Schneider-Thoma, Irene Bighelli, Marc Krause, Alessandro Rodolico, Anna Ceraso, Giacomo Deste, Maximilian Huhn, David Fraguas, Dimitris Mavridis, Tony Charman, Declan G. Murphy, Mara Parellada, Celso Arango, Stefan Leucht

Dissecting the phenotypic heterogeneity in sensory features in autism spectrum disorder: a factor mixture modelling approach

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J. Tillmann, M. Uljarevic, D. Crawley, G. Dumas, E. Loth, D. Murphy, J. Buitelaar, T. Charman, Jumana Ahmad, Sara Ambrosino, Bonnie Auyeung, Sarah Baumeister, Christian Beckmann, Thomas Bourgeron, Carsten Bours, Michael Brammer, Daniel Brandeis, Claudia Brogna, Yvette de Bruijn, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Ineke Cornelissen, Flavio Dell’ Acqua, Guillaume Dumas, Christine Ecker, Jessica Faulkner, Vincent Frouin, Pilar Garcés, David Goyard, Hannah Hayward, Joerg Hipp, Mark H. Johnson, Emily J. H. Jones, Prantik Kundu, Meng-Chuan Lai, Xavier Liogier D’ardhuy, Michael Lombardo, David J. Lythgoe, René Mandl, Luke Mason, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Carolin Moessnang, Nico Mueller, Laurence O’Dwyer, Marianne Oldehinkel, Bob Oranje, Gahan Pandina, Antonio M. Persico, Barbara Ruggeri, Amber Ruigrok, Jessica Sabet, Roberto Sacco, Roberto Toro, Heike Tost, Jack Waldman, Steve C. R. Williams, Caroline Wooldridge, Marcel P. Zwiers

Autism-associated variants of neuroligin 4X impair synaptogenic activity by various molecular mechanisms

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Takafumi Yumoto, Misaki Kimura, Ryota Nagatomo, Tsukika Sato, Shun Utsunomiya, Natsue Aoki, Motoji Kitaura, Koji Takahashi, Hiroshi Takemoto, Hirotaka Watanabe, Hideyuki Okano, Fumiaki Yoshida, Yosuke Nao, Taisuke Tomita

Assessing the requirements of prenatal UBE3A expression for rescue of behavioral phenotypes in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

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Monica Sonzogni, Peipei Zhai, Edwin J. Mientjes, Geeske M. van Woerden, Ype Elgersma

Enhanced social learning of threat in adults with autism

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Lisa Espinosa, Johan Lundin Kleberg, Björn Hofvander, Steve Berggren, Sven Bölte, Andreas Olsson

Chd8 haploinsufficiency impairs early brain development and protein homeostasis later in life

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Jessica A. Jiménez, Travis S. Ptacek, Alex H. Tuttle, Ralf S. Schmid, Sheryl S. Moy, Jeremy M. Simon, Mark J. Zylka

Functional relationships between recessive inherited genes and genes with de novo variants in autism spectrum disorder

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Lin Wang, Yi Zhang, Kuokuo Li, Zheng Wang, Xiaomeng Wang, Bin Li, Guihu Zhao, Zhenghuan Fang, Zhengbao Ling, Tengfei Luo, Lu Xia, Yanping Li, Hui Guo, Zhengmao Hu, Jinchen Li, Zhongsheng Sun, Kun Xia

White matter alterations in autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in relation to sensory profile

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Haruhisa Ohta, Yuta Y. Aoki, Takashi Itahashi, Chieko Kanai, Junya Fujino, Motoaki Nakamura, Nobumasa Kato, Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto

Ribosome profiling in mouse hippocampus: plasticity-induced regulation and bidirectional control by TSC2 and FMRP

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Annie Hien, Gemma Molinaro, Botao Liu, Kimberly M. Huber, Joel D. Richter

Social attention to activities in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder: effects of context and age

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Dzmitry A. Kaliukhovich, Nikolay V. Manyakov, Abigail Bangerter, Seth Ness, Andrew Skalkin, Matthew S. Goodwin, Geraldine Dawson, Robert L. Hendren, Bennett Leventhal, Caitlin M. Hudac, Jessica Bradshaw, Frederick Shic, Gahan Pandina

Face individual identity recognition: a potential endophenotype in autism

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Ilaria Minio-Paluello, Giuseppina Porciello, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Simon Baron-Cohen

Brain function distinguishes female carriers and non-carriers of familial risk for autism

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Adam T. Eggebrecht, Ally Dworetsky, Zoë Hawks, Rebecca Coalson, Babatunde Adeyemo, Savannah Davis, Daniel Gray, Alana McMichael, Steven E. Petersen, John N. Constantino, John R. Pruett Jr

Imbalance of laminar-specific excitatory and inhibitory circuits of the orbitofrontal cortex in autism

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Xuefeng Liu, Julied Bautista, Edward Liu, Basilis Zikopoulos

Physical health of autistic girls and women: a scoping review

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Caroline Kassee, Stephanie Babinski, Ami Tint, Yona Lunsky, Hilary K. Brown, Stephanie H. Ameis, Peter Szatmari, Meng-Chuan Lai, Gillian Einstein

Targeting of δ-catenin to postsynaptic sites through interaction with the Shank3 N-terminus

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Fatemeh Hassani Nia, Daniel Woike, Victoria Martens, Malte Klüssendorf, Hans-Hinrich Hönck, Sönke Harder, Hans-Jürgen Kreienkamp

Gray matter covariations and core symptoms of autism: the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project

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Ting Mei, Alberto Llera, Dorothea L. Floris, Natalie J. Forde, Julian Tillmann, Sarah Durston, Carolin Moessnang, Tobias Banaschewski, Rosemary J. Holt, Simon Baron-Cohen, Annika Rausch, Eva Loth, Flavio Dell’Acqua, Tony Charman, Declan G. M. Murphy, Christine Ecker, Christian F. Beckmann, Jan K. Buitelaar

Differentially altered social dominance- and cooperative-like behaviors in Shank2- and Shank3-mutant mice

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  • Short report

Kyung Ah Han, Taek Han Yoon, Jungsu Shin, Ji Won Um, Jaewon Ko

High-throughput screening identifies histone deacetylase inhibitors that modulate GTF2I expression in 7q11.23 microduplication autism spectrum disorder patient-derived cortical neurons

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Francesca Cavallo, Flavia Troglio, Giovanni Fagà, Daniele Fancelli, Reinald Shyti, Sebastiano Trattaro, Matteo Zanella, Giuseppe D’Agostino, James M. Hughes, Maria Rosaria Cera, Maurizio Pasi, Michele Gabriele, Maddalena Lazzarin, Marija Mihailovich, Frank Kooy, Alessandro Rosa, Ciro Mercurio, Mario Varasi, Giuseppe Testa

Altered synaptic ultrastructure in the prefrontal cortex of Shank3-deficient rats

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Sarah Jacot-Descombes, Neha U. Keshav, Dara L. Dickstein, Bridget Wicinski, William G. M. Janssen, Liam L. Hiester, Edward K. Sarfo, Tahia Warda, Matthew M. Fam, Hala Harony-Nicolas, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Patrick R. Hof, Merina Varghese

Common and unique multimodal covarying patterns in autism spectrum disorder subtypes

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Shile Qi, Robin Morris, Jessica A. Turner, Zening Fu, Rongtao Jiang, Thomas P. Deramus, Dongmei Zhi, Vince D. Calhoun, Jing Sui

No preference for direct versus averted gaze in autistic adults: a reinforced preferential looking paradigm

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Elise Clin, Pauline Maes, Fanny Stercq, Mikhail Kissine

The eIF4E homolog 4EHP (eIF4E2) regulates hippocampal long-term depression and impacts social behavior

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Shane Wiebe, Xiang Qi Meng, Sung-Hoon Kim, Xu Zhang, Jean-Claude Lacaille, Argel Aguilar-Valles, Nahum Sonenberg

Meconium androgens are correlated with ASD-related phenotypic traits in early childhood in a familial enriched risk cohort

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Dina Terloyeva, Alexander J. Frey, Bo Y. Park, Elizabeth M. Kauffman, Leny Mathew, Anna Bostwick, Erika L. Varner, Brian K. Lee, Lisa A. Croen, Margaret D. Fallin, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Craig J. Newschaffer, Kristen Lyall, Nathaniel W. Snyder

Combined frequency-tagging EEG and eye-tracking measures provide no support for the “excess mouth/diminished eye attention” hypothesis in autism

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Sofie Vettori, Stephanie Van der Donck, Jannes Nys, Pieter Moors, Tim Van Wesemael, Jean Steyaert, Bruno Rossion, Milena Dzhelyova, Bart Boets

Alpha connectivity and inhibitory control in adults with autism spectrum disorder

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Veronica Yuk, Benjamin T. Dunkley, Evdokia Anagnostou, Margot J. Taylor

Developmental vitamin D deficiency increases foetal exposure to testosterone

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Asad Amanat Ali, Xiaoying Cui, Renata Aparecida Nedel Pertile, Xiang Li, Gregory Medley, Suzanne Adele Alexander, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, John Joseph McGrath, Darryl Walter Eyles

Evidence for the placenta-brain axis: multi-omic kernel aggregation predicts intellectual and social impairment in children born extremely preterm

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Hudson P. Santos Jr, Arjun Bhattacharya, Robert M. Joseph, Lisa Smeester, Karl C. K. Kuban, Carmen J. Marsit, T. Michael O’Shea, Rebecca C. Fry

Gene functional networks and autism spectrum characteristics in young people with intellectual disability: a dimensional phenotyping study

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Diandra Brkić, Elise Ng-Cordell, Sinéad O’Brien, Gaia Scerif, Duncan Astle, Kate Baker

Human stem cell-based models for studying autism spectrum disorder-related neuronal dysfunction

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Arquimedes Cheffer, Lea Jessica Flitsch, Tamara Krutenko, Pascal Röderer, Liubov Sokhranyaeva, Vira Iefremova, Mohamad Hajo, Michael Peitz, Martin Karl Schwarz, Oliver Brüstle

Left hemispheric deficit in the sustained neuromagnetic response to periodic click trains in children with ASD

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T. A. Stroganova, K. S. Komarov, O. V. Sysoeva, D. E. Goiaeva, T. S. Obukhova, T. M. Ovsiannikova, A. O. Prokofyev, E. V. Orekhova

Neu in den Fachgebieten Neurologie und Psychiatrie

Rezidiviertes Grad-3-Astrozytom: Kann ein Antiparasitenmittel die Prognose verbessern?

Daten der Phase-III-Studie STELLAR sprechen für eine klinisch relevante Aktivität der Therapiekombination aus Eflornithin und Lomustin bei Personen mit rezidivierten Grad-3-Astrozytomen. Besonderheiten im Studiendesgin machen die Interpretation indes nicht ganz leicht.

Mit KI gegen Mukositis und Polyneuropathie

KI-Analysen von elektronischen Patientenakten können helfen, vielversprechende Signale für potenzielle Wirkstoffe gegen Chemotherapienebenwirkungen zu erhärten. Dafür sprechen zumindest Ergebnisse einer Studie aus Japan.

GHB als Partydroge im Aufwind

Billig und stimulierend, solange man nicht zu viel davon nimmt: Gamma-Hydroxy-Buttersäure (GHB) hat sich einen schlechten Ruf als K.o.-Tropfen erworben. Verwendet wird die Substanz jedoch meist als Partydroge. In der Szene hat sie schon gut ein Drittel probiert.

Mephedron und „Monkey Dust“ erobern das Nachtleben

Seit der Pandemie machen sich zunehmend synthetische Cathinone in der Partyszene breit. Die Amphetamine werden geraucht oder geschnupft, beim Feiern oder zum Sex konsumiert und sorgen in Kliniken für immer mehr drogeninduzierte Psychosen.

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