Autism spectrum
Somatic overgrowth predisposes to seizures in autism spectrum disorders.
... Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by a wide range of dysfunctions in communicative and social ability, and by repetitive, restricted, and stereotyped interests and ...
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Perception of shadows in children with autism spectrum disorders.
... Produced by the blockage of light from a light source by objects, cast shadows can provide valuable information about the presence and number, as well as the relative position of objects in the visual scene [1]. ...
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Toward understanding everyday decision making by adults across the autism spectrum
... Because our sampling of participants was from a nation- wide network of persons who self-identified as autistic and who had a history of completing surveys for compensation, the distribution of personal characteristics ...
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Screening, identification and evaluation of autism spectrum disorders in primary health care
... Diagnostic criteria (according to DSM-IVR) 5 for As- perger's syndrome are: Qualitative impairment of social in- teraction; Restricted repetitive and stereotyped forms of be- havior, interests and activities; Disorder ...
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An analysis of intransitive and pantomime gestures in autism spectrum disorder
... The first of these studies compared the performance of pantomimes and intransitive gestures in stroke patients with right hemisphere damage (Stamenova, Roy, & Black, 2010), and found that performance of intransitive ...
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Heuristics to Evaluate Interactive Systems for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
... In this paper, we adapted and expanded a set of guidelines, also known as heuristics, to evaluate the usability of software to now be appropriate for software aimed at children with autism spectrum disorder ...
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Genetic Evidence for Elevated Pathogenicity of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
... Increasing clinical and biochemical evidence implicate mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but little is known about the biological basis for this connection. ...
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Autism spectrum disorders: an overview on diagnosis and treatment
... shared spectrum of qualitative impairments in social interaction, associated with varying degrees of deficits in communication and marked repetitive behaviors and restricted ...as autism spectrum ...
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Reduced Personal Space in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
... relations. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a develop- mental disorder associated with social difficulties, and it is thus worth examining whether individuals with ASD maintain typical or atypical degrees ...
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An application to improve emotional skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
... This dissertation presents a project developed with the aim of promoting emotional skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The project involves a serious game and a playware object, which ...
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Developmental trajectories of resting EEG power: an endophenotype of autism spectrum disorder.
... Current research suggests that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by asynchronous neural oscillations. However, it is unclear whether changes in neural oscillations represent an index of the ...
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Motor intervention and assessment instruments in Autism Spectrum Disorders
... The practice of physical activity in people with disabilities provides important health benefits (Wind, Schwend, & Larson, 2004; Chanias, Reid, & Hoover, 1998), particularly in individuals with autism ...
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Perception of social cues of danger in autism spectrum disorders.
... Intuitive grasping of the meaning of subtle social cues is particularly affected in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Despite their relevance in social communication, the effect of averted gaze in fearful ...
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Individuals with autism spectrum disorders do not use social stereotypes in irony comprehension.
... Social and communication impairments are part of the essential diagnostic criteria used to define Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Difficulties in appreciating non-literal speech, such as irony in ASDs ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Longitudinal and Offspring Risk.
... Autism spectrum disorders constitute a group of neuro-developmental disorders characterized by severe impairments in social interaction and communication, often accompanied by restricted, repetitive or ...
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The cost of autism spectrum disorders.
... an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) results in an estimated annual national cost to Australia of ...of autism can peak during the periods when a diagnosis is being assessed and when treatments are ...
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Computational Approach To Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders
... Abstract Every year the prevalence of Autism Spectrum of Disorders (ASD) is rising. Is there a unifying mechanism of various ASD cases at the genetic, molecu- lar, cellular or systems level? The hypothesis ...
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Characteristics of the emissive prosody of children with autism spectrum disorder
... with Autism Spectrum ...with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Group 2 – children with language delay; Group 3 – children with typical language ...
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Autism spectrum disorder and celiac disease : no evidence for a link
... Objective: To evaluate the possible association between celiac disease (CD) and/or gluten sensitivity (GS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods: Occurrences of CD were determined in a group of ...
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Vocal Identity Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
... Voices can convey information about a speaker. When forming an abstract representation of a speaker, it is important to extract relevant features from acoustic signals that are invari- ant to the modulation of these ...
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