After decades of evolution, measuring instruments for quantitative gait analysis have
become an important clinical tool for assessing pathologies manifested by gait …

Gross motor ability is associated with profound differences in how children experience and
interact with their social world. A rapidly growing literature on motor development in autism …

Are motor coordination deficits an underlying cardinal feature of Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD)? Database searches identified 83 ASD studies focused on motor coordination, arm …

Altered motor behaviour is commonly reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder, but the
aetiology remains unclear. Here, we have taken a computational approach in order to break …

We review evidence that autistic spectrum disorders have their origin in early prenatal failure
of development in systems that program timing, serial coordination and prospective control …

OBJECTIVE. Poor postural control during pull-to-sit is a predictor of developmental
disruption in cerebral palsy and preterm populations but has not been examined in infants at …

The way in which we move influences our ability to perceive, interpret and predict the
actions of others. Thus movements play an important role in social cognition. This review …

Empathy is an essential component of human social life. It requires the ability to understand
another's mental state and respond with an appropriate emotion or action. Individuals with …

Hans Asperger (1906–1980) was an Austrian pediatrician with interest in special education
who in 1944 described four children ages 6 to 11 years who had difficulty integrating socially …

Originally described in 1944, Asperger syndrome (AS) was included in ICD-10 and DSM-IV
almost 50 years after its description by Hans Asperger, a pediatrician from Vienna with …