Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition of heterogeneous
etiology. While it is widely recognized that genetic and environmental factors and their …

Qualitative literature reports the sensory experiences of autistic individuals in the first
person. Following a thematic synthesis procedure, this metasynthesis aimed to explore …

Background: Autism has been associated with specific cognitive strengths. Strengths and
weaknesses have traditionally been conceptualized as dichotomous. Methods: We …

Outstanding skills, including special isolated skills (SIS) and perceptual peaks (PP) are
frequent features of autism. However, their reported prevalence varies between studies and …

A suite of recent studies has reported positive genetic correlations between autism risk and
measures of mental ability. These findings indicate that alleles for autism overlap broadly …

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), such as autism and ADHD, are behaviorally defined
adaptive functioning difficulties arising from variations, alterations and atypical maturation of …

Early psychological theories of autism explained the clinical features of this condition in
terms of perceptual and sensory processing impairments. The arrival of domain-specific …

Diagnostic criteria used in autism research have undergone a shift towards the inclusion of a
larger population, paralleled by increasing, but variable, estimates of autism prevalence …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is commonly understood as an alteration of brain networks,
yet case-control analyses against typically-developing controls (TD) have yielded …

This review presents research findings showing that music is a unique domain to assess
perception, reward, emotion, and associated physiological reactions and neural circuitry of …