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Autism spectrum disorders articles from across Nature Portfolio
Autism spectrum disorders are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that are characterized by impaired social interaction and communication skills, and are often accompanied by other behavioural symptoms such as repetitive or stereotyped behaviour and abnormal sensory processing. Individual symptoms and cognitive functioning vary across the autism spectrum disorders.
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Further delineation of the SCAF4 -associated neurodevelopmental disorder
- Cosima M. Schmid
- Anne Gregor
- Christiane Zweier
Mis-splicing of a neuronal microexon promotes CPEB4 aggregation in ASD
The molecular mechanisms of how small changes in the degree of inclusion of a neuron-specific microexon in CPEB4 lead to dominant-negative effects in the expression of genes associated with autism spectrum disorder are identified.
- Carla Garcia-Cabau
- Anna Bartomeu
- Xavier Salvatella
The genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder in an ancestrally diverse cohort
- Ashlesha Gogate
- Maria H. Chahrour
Social attention in the wild - fixations to the eyes and autistic traits during a naturalistic interaction in a healthy sample
- Raimund Buehler
- Ulrich Ansorge
- Giorgia Silani
Exploration and practice of potential association prediction between diseases and drugs based on Swanson framework and bioinformatics
- Yuyang Yuan
- Hongxia Zhao
Autism spectrum disorder variation as a computational trade-off via dynamic range of neuronal population responses
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder show neural patterns different from those of neurotypical individuals. Here the authors show that this variation reflects a computational trade-off between accurate encoding and fast adaptation tuned by the neural population response.
- Oded Wertheimer
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Impaired macroautophagy confers substantial risk for intellectual disability in children with autism spectrum disorders
- Audrey Yuen Chang
- Guomei Tang
Reorienting social communication research via double empathy
- Oluwatobi Abubakare
The exclusively inclusive landscape of autism research
People with intellectual disability are underrepresented and often actively excluded from autism research. A better understanding of autism requires inclusive research approaches that accurately represent the broad heterogeneity of the autistic population.
- Lauren Jenner
- Joanna Moss
Association of fluvoxamine with mortality and symptom resolution among inpatients with COVID-19
- Guangting Zeng
- Jianqiang Li
- Zanling Zhang
Autistic people three times more likely to develop Parkinson’s-like symptoms
Largest study of its kind also finds increased risk in older adults with a range of intellectual disabilities.
- Miryam Naddaf
Targeting RNA opens therapeutic avenues for Timothy syndrome
A therapeutic strategy that alters gene expression in a rare and severe neurodevelopmental condition has been tested in stem-cell-based models of the disease, and has been shown to correct genetic and cellular defects.
- Silvia Velasco
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