32 In this article, we review the paper Multisensory Temporal Integration in Autism Spectrum 33 Disorders, by Stevenson et al. (2014). This paper illustrates the need to present different forms of 34 stimuli in order to characterize the perceptual abilities of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 35 Furthermore, we will discuss their behavioral results and offer an opposing viewpoint to ...

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Autism is a developmental disorder characterised by a high heterogeneity of clinical diagnoses and genetic associations. This heterogeneity is a challenge for the identification of the pathophysiology of the disease and for the development of new therapeutic strategies. New conceptual approaches are being used to try to challenge this complexity and gene cluster analysis studies suggest that th...

Numerous studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder have attempted to link behavioral phenotypes to genetic findings. Reliance on cross-sectional behavioral data in samples that span wide age ranges may have limited this endeavor because ASD behaviors are not static within individuals across development. This study uses quantitative methods to describe specific aspects of changes in autism-related and...

Autobiographical accounts and a limited research literature suggest that adults with autism spectrum disorders can experience difficulties with decision-making. We examined whether some of the difficulties they describe correspond to quantifiable differences in decision-making when compared to adults in the general population. The participants (38 intellectually able adults with autism spectrum...

OBJECTIVE To study the association between parental depression and maternal antidepressant use during pregnancy with autism spectrum disorders in offspring. DESIGN Population based nested case-control study. SETTING Stockholm County, Sweden, 2001-07. PARTICIPANTS 4429 cases of autism spectrum disorder (1828 with and 2601 without intellectual disability) and 43,277 age and sex matched cont...

objectives: this study compared the effects of individual and group training on general health and stress of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. methods: a sample of 75 parents of children referring to autistic children foundation (including 50 parents in two experimental groups and 25 parents in control group) was taken into account. sample parents were selected through accessi...