Evaluation of the social motivation hypothesis of autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CC Clements, AR Zoltowski, LD Yankowitz… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The social motivation hypothesis posits that individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) find social stimuli less rewarding than do people with neurotypical activity …

A two-hit model of autism: Adolescence as the second hit

G Picci, KS Scherf - Clinical Psychological Science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Adolescence brings dramatic changes in behavior and neural organization. Unfortunately,
for some 30% of individuals with autism, there is marked decline in adaptive functioning …

Children with autism show atypical preference for non-social stimuli

CM Gale, S Eikeseth, L Klintwall - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The present investigation describes three studies testing the hypothesis that children with
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) show an atypical preference for non-social stimuli …

Altered reward system reactivity for personalized circumscribed interests in autism

G Kohls, L Antezana, MG Mosner, RT Schultz… - Molecular autism, 2018 - Springer
Background Neurobiological research in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has paid little
attention on brain mechanisms that cause and maintain restricted and repetitive behaviors …

Neural signatures of autism spectrum disorders: insights into brain network dynamics

LM Hernandez, JD Rudie, SA Green… - …, 2015 - nature.com
Neuroimaging investigations of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have advanced our
understanding of atypical brain function and structure, and have recently converged on a …

Intrainsular connectivity and somatosensory responsiveness in young children with ASD

MD Failla, BR Peters, H Karbasforoushan… - Molecular Autism, 2017 - Springer
Background The human somatosensory system comprises dissociable paths for
discriminative and affective touch, reflected in separate peripheral afferent populations and …

Repetitive behaviors in autism are linked to imbalance of corticostriatal connectivity: a functional connectivity MRI study

AE Abbott, AC Linke, A Nair, A Jahedi… - Social cognitive and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The neural underpinnings of repetitive behaviors (RBs) in autism spectrum disorders
(ASDs), ranging from cognitive to motor characteristics, remain unknown. We assessed RB …

Repetitive restricted behaviors in autism spectrum disorder: From mechanism to development of therapeutics

J Tian, X Gao, L Yang - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized
by deficits in social communication, social interaction, and repetitive restricted behaviors …

A simultaneous [11C]raclopride positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of striatal dopamine binding in autism

NR Zürcher, EC Walsh, RD Phillips… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
The social motivation hypothesis of autism posits that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is
characterized by impaired motivation to seek out social experience early in life that interferes …

Predicting ASD diagnosis in children with synthetic and image-based eye gaze data

S Liaqat, C Wu, PR Duggirala, SS Cheung… - Signal Processing …, 2021 - Elsevier
As early intervention is highly effective for young children with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD), it is imperative to make accurate diagnosis as early as possible. ASD has often been …