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  • Social motivation, reward and the roots of autism
    1 May 2012
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    Social impairments in autism are likely a consequence of deficits in social motivation that start early in life and have profound developmental consequences, says psychologist Robert Schultz.

  • In defense of childhood disintegrative disorder
    3 April 2012
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    Childhood disintegrative disorder represents a distinct entity within the autism spectrum and it should remain a separate diagnostic category, says Kevin Pelphrey.

  • How do we measure autism severity?
    20 March 2012
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    Accurately measuring the severity of autism remains a challenge for the field. The answer may lie in using more than one approach that varies depending on whether it is being applied in a clinical or research context, says Raphael Bernier.

  • Looking at autism through the fruit fly
    6 March 2012
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    The characteristics, interactions and roles of autism-associated genes in the fruit flies' brain will help guide how we think about the same genes in humans, says Ralph Greenspan.

  • Maternal anti-brain antibodies may play a role in autism
    21 February 2012
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    Maternal antibodies that attack fetal brain proteins could underlie some cases of autism, says immunologist Betty Diamond.

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