Autism Research

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Autism severity level affects working memory and planning but not inhibition, shifting and emotional control	151
How Screening and Diagnostic Tools Shape Autism Prevalence in School‐Aged Children: A Bibliometric‐Systematic Review (2015–2025)	84
The devil is in the details: Advancing our collective understanding of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions	82
Social anxiety is more likely to influence reputation management decisions than autistic traits	78
Correction to “Well‐being spectrum traits are associated with polygenic scores for autism”	63
Machine Learning‐Based Early Prediction Model for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infants Using Acoustic Feature	62
EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism	53
Reports of Echolalia and Related Behaviors in Autism From Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians: Evidence From the Simon Simplex Collection	51
Gestational thyroid hormones and autism‐related traits in the EARLI and HOME studies	51
GABA and glutamate measurements in temporal cortex of autistic children	50
From Misophonia Through Puberphonia: Window Toward Gender Dysphoria in Autism?	49
Screening for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Symptoms Among Autistic Adults: Measurement Invariance With a Comparison General Sample	49
Comparative Analysis of Phenotypic and Genotypic Differences Between Individuals Affected by Regressive and Non‐Regressive Autism: A Cross‐Sectional Study	43
A Frank Assessment of SHANK : Impacts of Pathogenic Variations in SHANK3 on Preclinical Models of	41
Narrative abilities of autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The role of mentalising and executive function	38
How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review	38
Disrupted Modular Integration of the Reward System Is Associated With Social Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder	36
Atypical facial mimicry for basic emotions in children with autism spectrum disorder	36
Valence‐Arousal Asymmetry: Rethinking Facial Emotion Recognition in Preschool Autism Through Eye‐Tracking	35
Sensorimotor Behavior in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Biological Parents	34
Child and caregiver predictors of primary caregiver participation in families of school‐aged Autistic children	34
Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism	33
Development and validation of an Arabic language eye‐tracking paradigm for the early screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in Qatar	33
Subjective wellbeing of autistic adolescents and young adults: A cross sectional study	32

Hippocampal Subregion Function and Its Clinical Correlations in Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders	31
Improving parents' ability to advocate for services for youth with autism: A randomized clinical trial	31
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Genomic strategies to untangle the etiology of autism: A primer	29
Beyond Gaze: Affective Synchrony and Sensory‐Linked Interactional Profiles as Early Markers of Autism Risk	29
Impaired inhibitory control when processing real but not cartoon emotional faces in autistic children: Evidence from an event‐related potential study	28
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	27
Bullying Trajectories From Childhood to Adolescence: The Relationship With Mental Health Outcomes for Autistic and Neurotypical Youth	26
Maternal Mediterranean‐Style Diet During Pregnancy and Child Social Impairment as Measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale	26
Characterizing the autism spectrum phenotype in DYRK1A‐related syndrome	26
Measuring and validating autistic burnout	26
Testing an Advocacy Program to Improve Service Access Among Latino Families of Autistic Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial	26
Cerebellar gamma‐aminobutyric acid: Investigation of group effects in neurodevelopmental disorders	26
Male and Female Healthcare Trajectories in Autism: Are There Any Differences Considering Age at Diagnosis and Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Status?	26
Spontaneous Play Profiles in Mandarin‐Speaking Preschool Children With Autism, Developmental Delay, and Typical Development: A Fine‐Grained Comparative Analysis	26
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
Sex‐Based Differences in Prenatal and Perinatal Predictors of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Machine Learning With National Health Data	25
Are autistic females at greater risk of suicide? A call for clarity to advance suicide prevention for the whole community	25
Aberrant Neural Entrainment to Word‐Level Speech Patterns in Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for a Statistical Learning Deficit	25
Altered Patterns of Dynamic Functional Connectivity Underpin Reduced Expressions of Social–Emotional Reciprocity in Autistic Adults	24
Patterns of sleep disturbances and associations with depressive symptoms in autistic young adults	24
Specialization of anterior and posterior hippocampal functional connectivity differs in autism	24
Theory of Mind Mediates the Association Between Autistic Traits and Social Isolation in Middle‐Aged and Older Adults	24
Linking Brain Morphometry to Psychometric Measures and Energy‐Metabolic Biomarkers in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder	24
Spoken language outcomes in limited language preschoolers with autism and global developmental delay: RCT of early intervention approaches	23
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Exploring the mediating effect of camouflaging and the moderating effect of autistic identity on the relationship between autistic traits and mental wellbeing	23
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Cortical Network Overconnectivity Relates to Sensory, Cognitive, and Social Dimensions in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	22
Age‐Related Trajectories of Autistic Traits in Children With Angelman Syndrome	22
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	22
Structure and dynamics of anxiety in people with ASD and ID: A network analysis	22
Non‐autistic adults can recognize posed autistic facial expressions: Implications for internal representations of emotion	22
Specificity of the short‐story task for autism diagnosis when controlling for depression	22
Advanced Quantitative Microstructure Imaging in Autism: A Review of Methodology, Group Differences, and Associations With Developmental Outcomes	22
The Factor Structure and Validity of the Psychopathy Checklist‐Short Version When Used With Autistic Psychiatric Inpatients	21
Cognitive and Affective Predictors of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors and Interests in Very Young Autistic Children	21
Social motivation by self‐ and caregiver‐report: Reporter concordance and social correlates among autistic and neurotypical youth	21
Neurophysiological effects of a combined treatment of lovastatin and minocycline in patients with fragile X syndrome: Ancillary results of the LOVAMIX randomized clinical trial	21
Clinical Value of Early Motor Skill Assessment and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder	21
Unlocking the Potential of Habitual Napping to Moderate the Association Between Sleep Disturbances and Behavioral Problems Among Autistic and Typically Developing Children	20
Why I Invited a Commentary on “Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People”	20
Eye Tracking as a Treatment Monitoring Tool for Autism: A Multilevel Meta‐Analysis	20
Protein‐Altering Variants' Analysis in Autism Subgroups Uncovers Early Brain‐Expressed Gene Modules Relevant to Autism Pathophysiology	20
Independent Typers Exist: A Reply to Letters on Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing	20
Evaluating More Granular Options for Socio‐Demographic Questions in Autism Research	20
Social interaction links active musical rhythm engagement and expressive communication in autistic toddlers	19

Exploring the Heterogeneity of Self‐Injurious Behaviors in Autistic Youth: Patterns, Predictors, and Implications for Intervention	19
Maladaptive behaviors in children with autism and parental hopelessness: The moderating role of parental reflective functioning	19
Examining the Relationship Between Parental Broader Autism Phenotype Traits, Offspring Autism, and Parental Mental Health	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
Action execution and observation in autistic adults: A systematic review of fMRI studies	19
Examining the association between prenatal cannabis exposure and child autism traits: A multi‐cohort investigation in the environmental influences on child health outcome program	19
“People Think I'm a Fraud”: A Shared Autistic Experience Across Vastly Different Profiles	19
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Activation of Thematic and Taxonomic Relations During Lexical‐Semantic Processing in Autistic Children: Evidence From Eye Movements	18
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The potential of exercise to benefit and harm social‐cognitive abilities	18
The Impact of Affective Theory of Mind on Autistic Individual's Perception of Remorse	18
Objective assessment of autism spectrum disorder based on performance in structured interpersonal acting‐out tasks with prosodic stability and variability	18
Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Gender‐Diverse Children and Adolescents: A National Cohort Study	18
Inner experiences, mental health, and well‐being in autistic and non‐autistic adults	18
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Exploring Pragmatic Abilities in Sisters of Autistic Individuals: A Methodological Solution to Female Autism Research	17
Research on social attention in autism and the challenges of the research domain criteria ( RDoC ) framework	17
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Adverse Childhood Experiences in Autistic and Neurotypical Girls	17
Vasopressin, and not oxytocin, receptor gene methylation is associated with individual differences in receptive joint attention in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes	17
Developing Inner Speech to Help Autistic Individuals Improve Their Self‐Regulation Ability: A Pilot Randomized‐Controlled Trial	17
Interpretation of DAT SPECT Findings in Young Autistic Adults	17
Brain glutathione and GABA + levels in autistic children	17
Prenatal depression and risk of child autism‐related traits among participants in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program	17
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First Impressions Towards Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	16
ShopAutiPlan : Validating a Serious Game for Assessing Executive Planning in Autism	16
Measurement invariance of the Autism Impact Measure (AIM) across sex in children with autism spectrum disorder	16
A Preliminary Investigation of Dopamine Transporter Binding Abnormalities in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder	16
Adaptive Functioning, Sensory Processing, and Behavioral Problems in Autistic Children: The Moderating Role of Gender	16
Separate scoring algorithms for specific identification priorities optimize the screening properties of the Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers (STAT)	16
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Telehealth coaching in Project ImPACT indirectly affects children's expressive language ability through parent intervention strategy use and child intentional communication: An RCT	16
Orienting to and away from the eyes in infants at high likelihood for autism when scanning faces	15
A preliminary randomized controlled study of the PEERS® program for Taiwanese autistic adolescents: The effectiveness on reducing school bullying and enhancing social function	15
Empathy among autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The importance of informant effects	15
Letter to the editor	15
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GABA and Glx predict EEG responses of visual sensitivity in autism	15
Screen to Screen Versus Face to Face: Evaluating Telehealth Autism Diagnostic Assessments for Young Children in a Diverse Clinical Setting	15
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)	15
Genetic and epigenetic signatures associated with plasma oxytocin levels in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	15
Event‐ and Time‐Based Prospective Memory and Time Perception in Autistic Adults With and Without Intellectual Disabilities	15
Scene construction and autobiographical memory retrieval in autism spectrum disorder	15
Subregion‐specific thalamocortical functional connectivity, executive function, and social behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders	15
Joint intention understanding in children with autism spectrum disorder	15
Irony Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	14
Cognitive Flexibility Mediates the Associations Between Perceived Stress, Social Camouflaging and Mental Health Challenges in Autistic Adults	14
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	14
Developmental process of the understanding of linguistic register in children: A comparison of typically developing children, autistic children, and children with Williams syndrome	14
Dietary intake in children on the autism spectrum is altered and linked to differences in autistic traits and sensory processing styles	14
Cognitive‐Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Does Not Increase Reports of Camouflaging Behavior in Autistic Adults: Results From an Exploratory Study	14
Rhythmic and interval‐based temporal orienting in autism	14
Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People	14
Reexamining empathy in autism: Empathic disequilibrium as a novel predictor of autism diagnosis and autistic traits	14
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Among Youth With Autism and ADHD : A Population‐Based Study From Sweden	14
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Sensory processing in 16p11.2 deletion and 16p11.2 duplication	13
Language growth in verbal autistic children from 5 to 11 years	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	13
Agreement of parent‐reported cognitive level with standardized measures among children with autism spectrum disorder	13
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	13
Response to Tien and Wei letter	13
Anomalous Pattern of Left Hemisphere Visual Connectivity in Children With Autism: Association With Impaired Praxis	13
Audiovisual temporal binding window narrows with age in autistic individuals	13
Linkage of whole genome sequencing and administrative health data in autism: A proof of concept study	13
Prolonged neural encoding of visual information in autism	13
Hand–foot coordination is significantly influenced by motion direction in individuals with autism spectrum disorder	13
Is language ability associated with behaviors of concern in autism? A systematic review	13
Task‐Related Aperiodic EEG (1/f) Activity in Autism	13
Visual Perspective Taking Training Improves Theory of Mind in Autistic Children	13
Expanding Research on Contextual Factors in Autism Research: What Took Us So Long?	13
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Figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A review	12
Visual mental imagery abilities in autism	12
The INSAR Community Collaborator Request: Using community–academic partnerships to enhance outcomes of participatory autism research	12

Characterizing subdomains of insistence on sameness in autistic youth	12
Relationship between quantitative digital behavioral features and clinical profiles in young autistic children	12
Remote monitoring of social attention in neurogenetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disability	12
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	12
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Auditory and Semantic Processing of Speech‐in‐Noise in Autism: A Behavioral and EEG Study	12
Gene–Environment Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Bisphenol A in Modulating Genetic Susceptibility	12
Social competence in autism: A structural equation modeling approach	12
Hope Is Not Enough: Assisted Typing Must Meet Scientific Standards	12
Motor difficulties in 16p11.2 copy number variation	12
Somatosensory temporal sensitivity in adults on the autism spectrum: A high‐density electrophysiological mapping study using the mismatch negativity ( MMN	12
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the BIS / BAS Scales in Children and Adolescents W	12
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Through Parents' Eyes: Perspectives on Child Development and Family Experience During ESDM Intervention	12
Artificial Intelligence Networks Combining Histopathology and Machine Learning Can Extract Axon Pathology in Autism Spectrum Disorder	12
Camera Movement Impacts on Mu‐Wave Activity During Action Observation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Without Intellectual Disabilities	12
Neural sensitivity to facial identity and facial expression discrimination in adults with autism	12
Parasympathetic withdrawal indexes risk for emotion dysregulation in children with autism spectrum disorder	12
REM Sleep Abnormalities in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	11
Autistic identity: A systematic review of quantitative research	11
A Systematic Review on Computer Vision in Play‐Based Research and Interventions for Autistic Children	11
Role of autonomic, nociceptive, and limbic brainstem nuclei in core autism features	11
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	11
Contribution of the serotonergic system to developmental brain abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder	11
Cluster analysis of teachers report for identifying symptoms of autism spectrum and/or attention deficit hyperactivity in school population: EPINED study	11
Examining the Relationship Between Social Motivation and Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	11
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Longitudinal change in symptom severity in children with ASD: Results from the ELENA cohort	11
Autism‐related language preferences of English ‐speaking individuals across the globe: A mixed methods investigation	11
Characterizing associations between emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and repetitive behaviors in autistic youth with intellectual disability	11
What Is Distinctive About Autism Arising Following Severe Institutional Deprivation? A Direct Comparison With a Community Sample of Early Diagnosed Autistic People	11
The Sensory Observation Autism Rating Scale (SOAR): Developed using the PROMIS® framework	11
“We are exhausted, worn out, and broken”: Understanding the impact of service satisfaction on caregiver well‐being	11
Prevalence of neurodevelopmental differences and autism in Scottish primary schools 2018–2022	11
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Easily readable? Examining the readability of lay summaries published in Autism Research	11
A multi‐omic approach identifies an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regulatory complex of functional epimutations in placentas from children born preterm	11
Association Between Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Mental Health Symptoms in Children With Autism and ADHD : A Latent Profile Analysis	11
Maximizing the Quality and Reporting Standards of Autism Intervention Science	11
Sex Differences in Auditory Brainstem Responses of Two Rat Models of Autism: Environmental and Genetic Contributions to Autism‐Like Auditory Function	11
Altered Primary Somatosensory Neuron Development in a Pten Heterozygous Model for Autism Spectrum Disorder	10
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Reduced Susceptibility to the Dunning–Kruger Effect in Autistic Employees	10
Facial Expression Databases and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review	10
How do autistic people fare in adult life and can we predict it from childhood?	10
Cardiovascular disease risk factors in autistic adults: The impact of sleep quality and antipsychotic medication use	10
Feasibility Study of a Novel App‐Based Anxiety Intervention for Autistic People	10
Continuity and change in loneliness and stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of autistic and non‐autistic adults	10
Vocabulary of Autistic Preschool Children With Limited Language: Alignment With Early Word Inventories	10
The Conceptualization, Experience, and Recognition of Emotion in Autism: Differences in the Psychological Mechanisms Involved in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Emotion Recognition	10
Mixed Evidence for Impact of Early Infant Gut Microbiome and Later Development of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the MARBLES Prospective Cohort Study	10
Speech‐in‐noise perception in autistic adolescents with and without early language delay	10
Development of peak alpha frequency reflects a distinct trajectory of neural maturation in autistic children	10
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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	10
Autistic Traits and Emotion Dysregulation in 5–11‐Year‐Old Intellectually Able Children With Autism Spectrum Condition: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies	10
Naa15 Haploinsufficiency and De Novo Missense Variants Associate With Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Interfere With Neurogenesis and Neuron Development	10
Decreased BOLD Signal Variability in Middle‐Aged and Older Adults on the Autism Spectrum	10
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Characterizing restricted and unusual interests in autistic youth	10
Is she still angry? Intact learning but no updating of facial expressions priors in autism	10
Addressing current barriers to autism diagnoses through a tiered diagnostic approach involving pediatric primary care providers	10
Acoustic Exaggeration Enhances Speech Discrimination in Young Autistic Children	9
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
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Atypical Visually Guided Precision Grip Control in Middle‐Aged and Older Autistic Adults	9
Association of Thyroid Hormone and Insulin‐Like Growth Factor‐1 Levels With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	9
Microstructural White Matter Alterations in Angelman Syndrome: A Fixel‐Based Analysis	9
Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change	9
Motor‐Communication Skill Link in Minimally Speaking Children on the Autism Spectrum from the U.S. and India	9
Investigating implicit emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross‐modal emotional priming study	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
Family history of psychiatric conditions and development of siblings of children with autism	9
Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence‐related terms in artificial intelligence language models	9
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Executive Functioning as a Pathway Between Social Skills and Psychopathology: The Moderating Role of Autism Diagnosis	9
Bumetanide oral solution for the treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: Results from two randomized phase III studies	9
Consistency and reliability of automated language measures across expressive language samples in autism	9
Language Abilities Associated With Household Income and Parental Education Level in Autistic Children During Early Childhood	9
Seeing through a robot's eyes: A cross‐sectional exploratory study in developing a robotic screening technology for autism	9