Identification, evaluation, and management of children with autism spectrum disorder

SL Hyman, SE Levy, SM Myers, DZ Kuo, S Apkon… - …, 2020 - publications.aap.org
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with reported
prevalence in the United States of 1 in 59 children (approximately 1.7%). Core deficits are …

Genetic testing in neurodevelopmental disorders

JM Savatt, SM Myers - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurodevelopmental disorders are the most prevalent chronic medical conditions
encountered in pediatric primary care. In addition to identifying appropriate descriptive …

Promoting optimal development: identifying infants and young children with developmental disorders through developmental surveillance and screening

PH Lipkin, MM Macias, KW Norwood, TJ Brei… - …, 2020 - publications.aap.org
Early identification and intervention for developmental disorders are critical to the well-being
of children and are the responsibility of pediatric professionals as an integral function of the …

Meta-analysis of the diagnostic and clinical utility of genome and exome sequencing and chromosomal microarray in children with suspected genetic diseases

MM Clark, Z Stark, L Farnaes, TY Tan, SM White… - NPJ genomic …, 2018 - nature.com
Genetic diseases are leading causes of childhood mortality. Whole-genome sequencing
(WGS) and whole-exome sequencing (WES) are relatively new methods for diagnosing …

Genetic studies in intellectual disability and related disorders

LELM Vissers, C Gilissen, JA Veltman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic factors play a major part in intellectual disability (ID), but genetic studies have been
complicated for a long time by the extreme clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Recently …

The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism

C Lord, T Charman, A Havdahl, P Carbone… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Affecting about 78 million people worldwide, autism is a condition of
global importance because of its prevalence and the degree to which it can affect individuals …

[HTML][HTML] A clinical primer on intellectual disability

DR Patel, MD Cabral, A Ho, J Merrick - Translational pediatrics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Between 1% and 3% of persons in general population are estimated to have some
degree of intellectual disability. A diagnosis of intellectual disability is based on clinical …

Dendritic structural plasticity and neuropsychiatric disease

MP Forrest, E Parnell, P Penzes - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The structure of neuronal circuits that subserve cognitive functions in the brain is shaped
and refined throughout development and into adulthood. Evidence from human and animal …

The past, present and future of service delivery in genetic counseling: Keeping up in the era of precision medicine

K Stoll, S Kubendran, SA Cohen - American Journal of Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Precision medicine aims to approach disease treatment and prevention with consideration
of the variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. This focus on the …

Intellectual disability and language disorder

N Marrus, L Hall - Child and Adolescent Psychiatric …, 2017 - childpsych.theclinics.com
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