Autism Research

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Sensorimotor Behavior in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Biological Parents	136
From Misophonia Through Puberphonia: Window Toward Gender Dysphoria in Autism?	85
Hippocampal Subregion Function and Its Clinical Correlations in Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders	77
Improving parents' ability to advocate for services for youth with autism: A randomized clinical trial	75
Autism severity level affects working memory and planning but not inhibition, shifting and emotional control	61
Child and caregiver predictors of primary caregiver participation in families of school‐aged Autistic children	58
How Screening and Diagnostic Tools Shape Autism Prevalence in School‐Aged Children: A Bibliometric‐Systematic Review (2015–2025)	55
Comparative Analysis of Phenotypic and Genotypic Differences Between Individuals Affected by Regressive and Non‐Regressive Autism: A Cross‐Sectional Study	48
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The devil is in the details: Advancing our collective understanding of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions	48
Social anxiety is more likely to influence reputation management decisions than autistic traits	47
GABA and glutamate measurements in temporal cortex of autistic children	46
Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism	45
A Frank Assessment of SHANK : Impacts of Pathogenic Variations in SHANK3 on Preclinical Models of	44
Disrupted Modular Integration of the Reward System Is Associated With Social Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder	44
Correction to “Well‐being spectrum traits are associated with polygenic scores for autism”	42
Development and validation of an Arabic language eye‐tracking paradigm for the early screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in Qatar	42
Machine Learning‐Based Early Prediction Model for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infants Using Acoustic Feature	38
Subjective wellbeing of autistic adolescents and young adults: A cross sectional study	36
Increased perceived stress is negatively associated with activities of daily living and subjective quality of life in younger, middle, and older autistic adults	35
Screening for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Symptoms Among Autistic Adults: Measurement Invariance With a Comparison General Sample	33
Gestational thyroid hormones and autism‐related traits in the EARLI and HOME studies	32
EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism	32
Atypical facial mimicry for basic emotions in children with autism spectrum disorder	30

Reports of Echolalia and Related Behaviors in Autism From Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians: Evidence From the Simon Simplex Collection	30
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Narrative abilities of autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The role of mentalising and executive function	29
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How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review	29
Beyond Gaze: Affective Synchrony and Sensory‐Linked Interactional Profiles as Early Markers of Autism Risk	28
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Measuring and validating autistic burnout	26
Associations between sleep problems and domains relevant to daytime functioning and clinical symptomatology in autism: A meta‐analysis	26
Maternal Mediterranean‐Style Diet During Pregnancy and Child Social Impairment as Measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale	26
Are autistic females at greater risk of suicide? A call for clarity to advance suicide prevention for the whole community	26
Genomic strategies to untangle the etiology of autism: A primer	25
The impact of prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on theory of mind, emotion regulation and emotional‐behavioral functions in children with autism disorder: A randomiz	25
Bullying Trajectories From Childhood to Adolescence: The Relationship With Mental Health Outcomes for Autistic and Neurotypical Youth	24
Characterizing the autism spectrum phenotype in DYRK1A‐related syndrome	24
Male and Female Healthcare Trajectories in Autism: Are There Any Differences Considering Age at Diagnosis and Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Status?	24
Feasibility and acceptability of a caregiver‐mediated early support program, delivered online, for infants at elevated familial likelihood for autism: A feasibility randomized controlled trial	24
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Testing an Advocacy Program to Improve Service Access Among Latino Families of Autistic Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial	24
Reduced mismatch negativity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder is associated with their impaired adaptive functioning	23
Spoken language outcomes in limited language preschoolers with autism and global developmental delay: RCT of early intervention approaches	23
Spontaneous Play Profiles in Mandarin‐Speaking Preschool Children With Autism, Developmental Delay, and Typical Development: A Fine‐Grained Comparative Analysis	23
Cerebellar gamma‐aminobutyric acid: Investigation of group effects in neurodevelopmental disorders	22
Altered Patterns of Dynamic Functional Connectivity Underpin Reduced Expressions of Social–Emotional Reciprocity in Autistic Adults	22
Theory of Mind Mediates the Association Between Autistic Traits and Social Isolation in Middle‐Aged and Older Adults	22
Exploring the mediating effect of camouflaging and the moderating effect of autistic identity on the relationship between autistic traits and mental wellbeing	22
Specialization of anterior and posterior hippocampal functional connectivity differs in autism	22
Patterns of sleep disturbances and associations with depressive symptoms in autistic young adults	22
Impaired inhibitory control when processing real but not cartoon emotional faces in autistic children: Evidence from an event‐related potential study	22
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Specificity of the short‐story task for autism diagnosis when controlling for depression	21
Sex‐Based Differences in Prenatal and Perinatal Predictors of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Machine Learning With National Health Data	21
The Factor Structure and Validity of the Psychopathy Checklist‐Short Version When Used With Autistic Psychiatric Inpatients	21
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The importance of parenting self‐efficacy and social support for family quality of life in children newly diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder: A one‐year follow‐up study	20
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Objective assessment of autism spectrum disorder based on performance in structured interpersonal acting‐out tasks with prosodic stability and variability	20
Evaluating More Granular Options for Socio‐Demographic Questions in Autism Research	20
Structure and dynamics of anxiety in people with ASD and ID: A network analysis	20
Advanced Quantitative Microstructure Imaging in Autism: A Review of Methodology, Group Differences, and Associations With Developmental Outcomes	19
Neurophysiological effects of a combined treatment of lovastatin and minocycline in patients with fragile X syndrome: Ancillary results of the LOVAMIX randomized clinical trial	19
Protein‐Altering Variants' Analysis in Autism Subgroups Uncovers Early Brain‐Expressed Gene Modules Relevant to Autism Pathophysiology	19
Non‐autistic adults can recognize posed autistic facial expressions: Implications for internal representations of emotion	19
Examining the Relationship Between Parental Broader Autism Phenotype Traits, Offspring Autism, and Parental Mental Health	19
Cognitive and Affective Predictors of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors and Interests in Very Young Autistic Children	19
Social motivation by self‐ and caregiver‐report: Reporter concordance and social correlates among autistic and neurotypical youth	19
Age‐Related Trajectories of Autistic Traits in Children With Angelman Syndrome	19
The Selective Social Attention task in children with autism spectrum disorder: Results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC‐CT) feasibility study	19
Mapping the time course of overt emotion dysregulation, self‐injurious behavior, and aggression in psychiatrically hospitalized autistic youth: A naturalistic study	19

Maladaptive behaviors in children with autism and parental hopelessness: The moderating role of parental reflective functioning	19
Why add motor to the definition of ASD: A response to Bishop et al.'s critique of Bhat (2021)	18
Action execution and observation in autistic adults: A systematic review of fMRI studies	18
Social interaction links active musical rhythm engagement and expressive communication in autistic toddlers	18
Eye Tracking as a Treatment Monitoring Tool for Autism: A Multilevel Meta‐Analysis	18
Examining the association between prenatal cannabis exposure and child autism traits: A multi‐cohort investigation in the environmental influences on child health outcome program	18
Unlocking the Potential of Habitual Napping to Moderate the Association Between Sleep Disturbances and Behavioral Problems Among Autistic and Typically Developing Children	18
Exploring the Heterogeneity of Self‐Injurious Behaviors in Autistic Youth: Patterns, Predictors, and Implications for Intervention	18
Clinical Value of Early Motor Skill Assessment and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder	18
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The Impact of Affective Theory of Mind on Autistic Individual's Perception of Remorse	17
Developing Inner Speech to Help Autistic Individuals Improve Their Self‐Regulation Ability: A Pilot Randomized‐Controlled Trial	17
Vasopressin, and not oxytocin, receptor gene methylation is associated with individual differences in receptive joint attention in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes	17
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The potential of exercise to benefit and harm social‐cognitive abilities	17
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RETRACTED: Auditory perceptual learning in autistic adults	16
Activation of Thematic and Taxonomic Relations During Lexical‐Semantic Processing in Autistic Children: Evidence From Eye Movements	16
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Gender‐Diverse Children and Adolescents: A National Cohort Study	16
First Impressions Towards Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	16
Telehealth coaching in Project ImPACT indirectly affects children's expressive language ability through parent intervention strategy use and child intentional communication: An RCT	16
Brain glutathione and GABA + levels in autistic children	16
Inner experiences, mental health, and well‐being in autistic and non‐autistic adults	16
Exploring Pragmatic Abilities in Sisters of Autistic Individuals: A Methodological Solution to Female Autism Research	16
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Autistic and Neurotypical Girls	15
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Autistic people outperform neurotypicals in a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes	15
Prenatal depression and risk of child autism‐related traits among participants in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program	15
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Research on social attention in autism and the challenges of the research domain criteria ( RDoC ) framework	15
Interpretation of DAT SPECT Findings in Young Autistic Adults	15
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Measurement invariance of the Autism Impact Measure (AIM) across sex in children with autism spectrum disorder	14
Supporting the need for the motor domain to be included in the definition of autism spectrum disorder: A response to Bishop et al.'s critique of Bhat (2021)	14
Empathy among autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The importance of informant effects	14
Cognitive Flexibility Mediates the Associations Between Perceived Stress, Social Camouflaging and Mental Health Challenges in Autistic Adults	14
Letter to the editor	14
Event‐ and Time‐Based Prospective Memory and Time Perception in Autistic Adults With and Without Intellectual Disabilities	14
Screen to Screen Versus Face to Face: Evaluating Telehealth Autism Diagnostic Assessments for Young Children in a Diverse Clinical Setting	14
Separate scoring algorithms for specific identification priorities optimize the screening properties of the Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers (STAT)	14
Orienting to and away from the eyes in infants at high likelihood for autism when scanning faces	14
Joint intention understanding in children with autism spectrum disorder	14
Response to Tien and Wei letter	13
Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People	13
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A Preliminary Investigation of Dopamine Transporter Binding Abnormalities in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder	13
Genetic and epigenetic signatures associated with plasma oxytocin levels in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	13
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Cognitive‐Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Does Not Increase Reports of Camouflaging Behavior in Autistic Adults: Results From an Exploratory Study	13
Reexamining empathy in autism: Empathic disequilibrium as a novel predictor of autism diagnosis and autistic traits	13
GABA and Glx predict EEG responses of visual sensitivity in autism	13
Scene construction and autobiographical memory retrieval in autism spectrum disorder	13
Rhythmic and interval‐based temporal orienting in autism	13
Developmental process of the understanding of linguistic register in children: A comparison of typically developing children, autistic children, and children with Williams syndrome	13
What role does the environment play in language development? Exploring the associations among socioeconomic status, parent language input, and language skills in school‐aged children with autism	13
A preliminary randomized controlled study of the PEERS® program for Taiwanese autistic adolescents: The effectiveness on reducing school bullying and enhancing social function	13
Subregion‐specific thalamocortical functional connectivity, executive function, and social behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders	13
Dietary intake in children on the autism spectrum is altered and linked to differences in autistic traits and sensory processing styles	13
The National Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Their Associations With Health Conditions Among General Junior High School Students in China: Findings From the China Education Panel Survey	12
Agreement of parent‐reported cognitive level with standardized measures among children with autism spectrum disorder	12
Audiovisual temporal binding window narrows with age in autistic individuals	12
Auditory and Semantic Processing of Speech‐in‐Noise in Autism: A Behavioral and EEG Study	12
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Figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A review	12
Sensory processing in 16p11.2 deletion and 16p11.2 duplication	12
Linkage of whole genome sequencing and administrative health data in autism: A proof of concept study	12
Hand–foot coordination is significantly influenced by motion direction in individuals with autism spectrum disorder	12
Parasympathetic withdrawal indexes risk for emotion dysregulation in children with autism spectrum disorder	12
Longitudinal change in symptom severity in children with ASD: Results from the ELENA cohort	12
Neural sensitivity to facial identity and facial expression discrimination in adults with autism	12
Is language ability associated with behaviors of concern in autism? A systematic review	12
Arousal‐modulated memory encoding and retrieval in adults with autism spectrum disorder	12
Comparing vagus nerve stimulation and resective surgery outcomes in patients with co‐occurring autism and epilepsy to patients with epilepsy alone: A population‐based study	12
Gene–Environment Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Bisphenol A in Modulating Genetic Susceptibility	12
Anomalous Pattern of Left Hemisphere Visual Connectivity in Children With Autism: Association With Impaired Praxis	12
Language growth in verbal autistic children from 5 to 11 years	12

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Prolonged neural encoding of visual information in autism	12
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Expanding Research on Contextual Factors in Autism Research: What Took Us So Long?	12
Camera Movement Impacts on Mu‐Wave Activity During Action Observation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Without Intellectual Disabilities	11
Social competence in autism: A structural equation modeling approach	11
The INSAR Community Collaborator Request: Using community–academic partnerships to enhance outcomes of participatory autism research	11
A Systematic Review on Computer Vision in Play‐Based Research and Interventions for Autistic Children	11
Characterizing subdomains of insistence on sameness in autistic youth	11
Remote monitoring of social attention in neurogenetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disability	11
Autistic identity: A systematic review of quantitative research	11
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the BIS / BAS Scales in Children and Adolescents W	11
Somatosensory temporal sensitivity in adults on the autism spectrum: A high‐density electrophysiological mapping study using the mismatch negativity ( MMN	11
Artificial Intelligence Networks Combining Histopathology and Machine Learning Can Extract Axon Pathology in Autism Spectrum Disorder	11
Gray matter volume alteration is associated with insistence on sameness and cognitive flexibility in autistic youth	11
Easily readable? Examining the readability of lay summaries published in Autism Research	11
Exploring Alexithymia, Uncertainty, Anxious Arousal, and Social Anxiety as Mediators of the Relationship Between Sensory Processing Differences and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autistic Adul	11
Autism‐related language preferences of English ‐speaking individuals across the globe: A mixed methods investigation	11
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A multi‐omic approach identifies an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regulatory complex of functional epimutations in placentas from children born preterm	11
Motor difficulties in 16p11.2 copy number variation	11
Characterizing associations between emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and repetitive behaviors in autistic youth with intellectual disability	11
Relationship between quantitative digital behavioral features and clinical profiles in young autistic children	11
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Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
Visual mental imagery abilities in autism	11
Role of autonomic, nociceptive, and limbic brainstem nuclei in core autism features	11
Examining the Relationship Between Social Motivation and Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	10
Facing up to others' emotions: No evidence of autism‐related deficits in metacognitive awareness of emotion recognition	10
Cardiovascular disease risk factors in autistic adults: The impact of sleep quality and antipsychotic medication use	10
Is visual gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder related to sequence of emotion intensity presentation? An eye‐tracking study of natural emotion perception processes	10
What Is Distinctive About Autism Arising Following Severe Institutional Deprivation? A Direct Comparison With a Community Sample of Early Diagnosed Autistic People	10
Cluster analysis of teachers report for identifying symptoms of autism spectrum and/or attention deficit hyperactivity in school population: EPINED study	10
Maximizing the Quality and Reporting Standards of Autism Intervention Science	10
Representativeness of autistic samples in studies recruiting through social media	10
Increased prefrontal GABA concentrations in adults with autism spectrum disorders	10
Feasibility Study of a Novel App‐Based Anxiety Intervention for Autistic People	10
Is she still angry? Intact learning but no updating of facial expressions priors in autism	10
Association Between Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Mental Health Symptoms in Children With Autism and ADHD : A Latent Profile Analysis	10
Contribution of the serotonergic system to developmental brain abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder	10
Development of peak alpha frequency reflects a distinct trajectory of neural maturation in autistic children	10
How do autistic people fare in adult life and can we predict it from childhood?	10
The Sensory Observation Autism Rating Scale (SOAR): Developed using the PROMIS® framework	10
“We are exhausted, worn out, and broken”: Understanding the impact of service satisfaction on caregiver well‐being	10
Prevalence of neurodevelopmental differences and autism in Scottish primary schools 2018–2022	10
Speech‐in‐noise perception in autistic adolescents with and without early language delay	9
Motor‐Communication Skill Link in Minimally Speaking Children on the Autism Spectrum from the U.S. and India	9
Bumetanide oral solution for the treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: Results from two randomized phase III studies	9
Reduced Susceptibility to the Dunning–Kruger Effect in Autistic Employees	9
The Conceptualization, Experience, and Recognition of Emotion in Autism: Differences in the Psychological Mechanisms Involved in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Emotion Recognition	9
The impact of adverse childhood events on service support and educational outcomes of children who are autistic: A theory‐guided analysis using structural equation modeling	9
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Characterizing restricted and unusual interests in autistic youth	9
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Altered Primary Somatosensory Neuron Development in a Pten Heterozygous Model for Autism Spectrum Disorder	9
Decreased BOLD Signal Variability in Middle‐Aged and Older Adults on the Autism Spectrum	9
Vocabulary of Autistic Preschool Children With Limited Language: Alignment With Early Word Inventories	9
Autistic Traits and Emotion Dysregulation in 5–11‐Year‐Old Intellectually Able Children With Autism Spectrum Condition: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies	9
Maternal Touch During Mother–Infant Interactions in Infants With and Without an Elevated Likelihood for Autism: Links With Symptom‐Level Difficulties of Maternal Psychological Stress	9
REM Sleep Abnormalities in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	9
Sex Differences in Auditory Brainstem Responses of Two Rat Models of Autism: Environmental and Genetic Contributions to Autism‐Like Auditory Function	9
Facial Expression Databases and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review	9
Continuity and change in loneliness and stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of autistic and non‐autistic adults	9
Mixed Evidence for Impact of Early Infant Gut Microbiome and Later Development of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the MARBLES Prospective Cohort Study	9
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Effects of Cannabidiol on Social Relating, Anxiety, and Parental Stress in Autistic Children: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial	9
Common Gut Microbial Signatures in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder	9
Naa15 Haploinsufficiency and De Novo Missense Variants Associate With Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Interfere With Neurogenesis and Neuron Development	9
Addressing current barriers to autism diagnoses through a tiered diagnostic approach involving pediatric primary care providers	9
Disclosing an autism diagnosis: A social identity approach	8
Family history of psychiatric conditions and development of siblings of children with autism	8
Investigating implicit emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross‐modal emotional priming study	8
Developmental profiles of children at risk for autism spectrum disorder at school entry	8
Consistency and reliability of automated language measures across expressive language samples in autism	8
Changes in Intrinsic Activity of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex Causally Explain Differences in Emotion Perception in Autism	8
Acoustic Exaggeration Enhances Speech Discrimination in Young Autistic Children	8
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A practical approach to identifying autistic adults within the electronic health record	8
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Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change	8
Association of Thyroid Hormone and Insulin‐Like Growth Factor‐1 Levels With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	8
Atypical Visually Guided Precision Grip Control in Middle‐Aged and Older Autistic Adults	8
Language Abilities Associated With Household Income and Parental Education Level in Autistic Children During Early Childhood	8
Paradoxical relationship between cognitive abilities and camouflaging: Insights from ADHD and autism and its implications for neurodiversity research	8
Microstructural White Matter Alterations in Angelman Syndrome: A Fixel‐Based Analysis	8
Seeing through a robot's eyes: A cross‐sectional exploratory study in developing a robotic screening technology for autism	8
Sensory experiences questionnaire unravels differences in sensory profiles between MECP2‐related disorders	8
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Autism is associated with in vivo changes in gray matter neurite architecture	8
Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence‐related terms in artificial intelligence language models	8
Exploring Biases in Autism Diagnostic Pathways	8
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Diagnosing autism in low‐income countries: Clinical record‐based analysis in Sri Lanka	7
Decreased functional concordance in male children with autism spectrum disorder	7