Cortical properties of adults with autism spectrum disorder and an IQ > 100

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an umbrella term comprising several neurodevelopmental conditions. These conditions share deficits in social communication and interaction, as well as repetitive and stereotypic behaviors and interests. The last decades of ASD research made evident that ASD is not a single clinical entity (Levy  et al., 2009), but rather the behavioral manifestation of hundreds of genetic and genomic disorders (Betancur, 2011; Stessman et al., 2014), in interaction with environmental etiological factors (e.g.

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - July 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Simon Maier, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Evgeniy Perlov, Ansgard Lena D üppers, Kathrin Nickel, Thomas Fangmeier, Dominique Endres, Andreas Riedel Source Type: research