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Papers

(The median citation count of Molecular Autism is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Is social camouflaging associated with anxiety and depression in autistic adults?	143
The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults with autism: a survey study across three countries	90
Cannabinoid treatment for autism: a proof-of-concept randomized trial	90
Increased aperiodic gamma power in young boys with Fragile X Syndrome is associated with better language ability	53
Sleep disorders in rare genetic syndromes: a meta-analysis of prevalence and profile	52
Pharmacological and dietary-supplement treatments for autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	48
Beyond the three-chamber test: toward a multimodal and objective assessment of social behavior in rodents	43
Towards robust and replicable sex differences in the intrinsic brain function of autism	41
Development and validation of the suicidal behaviours questionnaire - autism spectrum conditions in a community sample of autistic, possibly autistic and non-autistic adults	39
Randomized controlled trial of sulforaphane and metabolite discovery in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	38
Globally elevated excitation–inhibition ratio in children with autism spectrum disorder and below-average intelligence	37
Targeting the RHOA pathway improves learning and memory in adult Kctd13 and 16p11.2 deletion mouse models	36
The Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI): development and validation of a new measure of autistic traits in the general population	36
The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials: evaluation of a battery of candidate eye-tracking biomarkers for use in autism clinical trials	34
Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis	33
Major motor and gait deficits with sexual dimorphism in a Shank3 mutant mouse model	33
Autistic adults have poorer quality healthcare and worse health based on self-report data	33
Imitation and recognition of facial emotions in autism: a computer vision approach	32
Evidence for the placenta-brain axis: multi-omic kernel aggregation predicts intellectual and social impairment in children born extremely preterm	30
Common and unique multimodal covarying patterns in autism spectrum disorder subtypes	30
An investigation of the diet, exercise, sleep, BMI, and health outcomes of autistic adults	29
Prospective and detailed behavioral phenotyping in DDX3X syndrome	28
How rare and common risk variation jointly affect liability for autism spectrum disorder	28
Modified CBT for social anxiety and social functioning in young adults with autism spectrum disorder	27
Exploring sensory phenotypes in autism spectrum disorder	26

Neuroanatomy and behavior in mice with a haploinsufficiency of AT-rich interactive domain 1B (ARID1B) throughout development	25
Examining a stepped-care telehealth program for parents of young children with autism: a proof-of-concept trial	24
Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging reveals white matter microstructural alterations in adults with autism	24
Human stem cell-based models for studying autism spectrum disorder-related neuronal dysfunction	24
A systematic review and meta-analysis of suicidality in autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability	24
Regulatory T lymphocytes/Th17 lymphocytes imbalance in autism spectrum disorders: evidence from a meta-analysis	24
Autism symptoms in anorexia nervosa: a comparative study with females with autism spectrum disorder	23
Fever during pregnancy as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: results from a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
High-throughput screening identifies histone deacetylase inhibitors that modulate GTF2I expression in 7q11.23 microduplication autism spectrum disorder patient-derived cortical neurons	22
Prevalence and phenotypic impact of rare potentially damaging variants in autism spectrum disorder	22
A constellation of eye-tracking measures reveals social attention differences in ASD and the broad autism phenotype	21
Using the big data approach to clarify the structure of restricted and repetitive behaviors across the most commonly used autism spectrum disorder measures	21
Abnormal electrophysiological phenotypes and sleep deficits in a mouse model of Angelman Syndrome	21
Early life sleep disruption potentiates lasting sex-specific changes in behavior in genetically vulnerable Shank3 heterozygous autism model mice	21
Deep phenotyping reveals movement phenotypes in mouse neurodevelopmental models	20
Left hemispheric deficit in the sustained neuromagnetic response to periodic click trains in children with ASD	20
Individuals with FOXP1 syndrome present with a complex neurobehavioral profile with high rates of ADHD, anxiety, repetitive behaviors, and sensory symptoms	20
Distinct, dosage-sensitive requirements for the autism-associated factor CHD8 during cortical development	19
Autism and chronic ill health: an observational study of symptoms and diagnoses of central sensitivity syndromes in autistic adults	19
Altered synaptic ultrastructure in the prefrontal cortex of Shank3-deficient rats	19
Effects of multiple-dose intranasal oxytocin administration on social responsiveness in children with autism: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial	19
Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and generation of a general alexithymia factor score using item respo	19
Maternal steroid levels and the autistic traits of the mother and infant	19
Childhood diagnoses in individuals identified as autistics in adulthood	18
Modulation of striatal functional connectivity differences in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder in a single-dose randomized trial of cannabidivarin	18
Prediction learning in adults with autism and its molecular correlates	18
Mind the translational gap: using iPS cell models to bridge from genetic discoveries to perturbed pathways and therapeutic targets	17
Clinical trial of insulin-like growth factor-1 in Phelan-McDermid syndrome	17
Tactile cortical responses and association with tactile reactivity in young children on the autism spectrum	17
Evaluating the latent structure of the non-social domain of autism in autistic adults	17
Application of Airy beam light sheet microscopy to examine early neurodevelopmental structures in 3D hiPSC-derived human cortical spheroids	17
Deletion of Fmr1 in parvalbumin-expressing neurons results in dysregulated translation and selective behavioral deficits associated with fragile X syndrome	16
Single-participant structural similarity matrices lead to greater accuracy in classification of participants than function in autism in MRI	16
Friend matters: sex differences in social language during autism diagnostic interviews	16
Infant excitation/inhibition balance interacts with executive attention to predict autistic traits in childhood	15
Atypical functional connectivity of temporal cortex with precuneus and visual regions may be an early-age signature of ASD	15
Non-verbal IQ and change in restricted and repetitive behavior throughout childhood in autism: a longitudinal study using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised	15
Disruption of grin2B, an ASD-associated gene, produces social deficits in zebrafish	15
Developmental vitamin D deficiency increases foetal exposure to testosterone	14
Inter-individual heterogeneity of functional brain networks in children with autism spectrum disorder	14
Germline nuclear-predominant Pten murine model exhibits impaired social and perseverative behavior, microglial activation, and increased oxytocinergic activity	14
Abnormal sleep physiology in children with 15q11.2-13.1 duplication (Dup15q) syndrome	14
Bayonet-shaped language development in autism with regression: a retrospective study	14
De novo variants in CACNA1E found in patients with intellectual disability, developmental regression and social cognition deficit but no seizures	13
Impaired neurogenesis and neural progenitor fate choice in a human stem cell model of SETBP1 disorder	13
Extremely preterm birth and autistic traits in young adulthood: the EPICure study	13
A working taxonomy for describing the sensory differences of autism	12
Dietary zinc supplementation rescues fear-based learning and synaptic function in the Tbr1+/− mouse model of autism spectrum disorders	12
Profiles of autism characteristics in thirteen genetic syndromes: a machine learning approach	12
Combined frequency-tagging EEG and eye-tracking measures provide no support for the “excess mouth/diminished eye attention” hypothesis in autism	12

Two neuroanatomical subtypes of males with autism spectrum disorder revealed using semi-supervised machine learning	12
Autism-associated protein POGZ controls ESCs and ESC neural induction by association with esBAF	11
Personal victimization experiences of autistic and non-autistic children	11
New guidance to seekers of autism biomarkers: an update from studies of identical twins	11
Shank3 deletion in PV neurons is associated with abnormal behaviors and neuronal functions that are rescued by increasing GABAergic signaling	11
Attentional influences on neural processing of biological motion in typically developing children and those on the autism spectrum	11
Myt1l haploinsufficiency leads to obesity and multifaceted behavioral alterations in mice	11
A profile and review of findings from the Early Markers for Autism study: unique contributions from a population-based case–control study in California	11
A randomized controlled trial of intranasal oxytocin in Phelan-McDermid syndrome	11
MEK inhibition ameliorates social behavior phenotypes in a Spred1 knockout mouse model for RASopathy disorders	11
Preference for biological motion is reduced in ASD: implications for clinical trials and the search for biomarkers	11
Autism-associated biomarkers: test–retest reliability and relationship to quantitative social trait variation in rhesus monkeys	10
Large multicenter randomized trials in autism: key insights gained from the balovaptan clinical development program	10
Insulin-like growth factor-2 does not improve behavioral deficits in mouse and rat models of Angelman Syndrome	10
Shifted phase of EEG cross-frequency coupling in individuals with Phelan-McDermid syndrome	10
Hippocampal neurons isolated from rats subjected to the valproic acid model mimic in vivo synaptic pattern: evidence of neuronal priming during early development in autism spectrum disorders	10
Delineating the autistic phenotype in children with neurofibromatosis type 1	10
Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism	10
Non-suicidal self-injury and its relation to suicide through acquired capability: investigating this causal mechanism in a mainly late-diagnosed autistic sample	10
Nonshared environmental factors in the aetiology of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions: a monozygotic co-twin control study	9
Analysis of common genetic variation and rare CNVs in the Australian Autism Biobank	9
The longitudinal bidirectional relationship between autistic traits and brain morphology from childhood to adolescence: a population-based cohort study	9
Immune activation during pregnancy exacerbates ASD-related alterations in Shank3-deficient mice	9
Modulation of atypical brain activation during executive functioning in autism: a pharmacological MRI study of tianeptine	9
Infants later diagnosed with autism have lower canonical babbling ratios in the first year of life	9
Alpha connectivity and inhibitory control in adults with autism spectrum disorder	9
Rescuing epileptic and behavioral alterations in a Dravet syndrome mouse model by inhibiting eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K)	9
Cross-level analysis of molecular and neurobehavioral function in a prospective series of patients with germline heterozygous PTEN mutations with and without autism	9
No preference for direct versus averted gaze in autistic adults: a reinforced preferential looking paradigm	9
Meconium androgens are correlated with ASD-related phenotypic traits in early childhood in a familial enriched risk cohort	9
The Monash Autism-ADHD genetics and neurodevelopment (MAGNET) project design and methodologies: a dimensional approach to understanding neurobiological and genetic aetiology	9
Oxytocin-induced increase in N,N-dimethylglycine and time course of changes in oxytocin efficacy for autism social core symptoms	9
Brainstem white matter microstructure is associated with hyporesponsiveness and overall sensory features in autistic children	9
Autistic traits and individual brain differences: functional network efficiency reflects attentional and social impairments, structural nodal efficiencies index systemising and theory-of-mind skills	8
Autism screening at 18 months of age: a comparison of the Q-CHAT-10 and M-CHAT screeners	8
Oxytocin impacts top-down and bottom-up social perception in adolescents with ASD: a MEG study of neural connectivity	8
The relevance of the interpersonal theory of suicide for predicting past-year and lifetime suicidality in autistic adults	8
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation and refinement of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale	8
The eIF4E homolog 4EHP (eIF4E2) regulates hippocampal long-term depression and impacts social behavior	8
White matter microstructural and morphometric alterations in autism: implications for intellectual capabilities	7
A proof-of-concept study of growth hormone in children with Phelan–McDermid syndrome	7
Brain correlates of declarative memory atypicalities in autism: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging findings	7
Experience-dependent changes in hippocampal spatial activity and hippocampal circuit function are disrupted in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome	7
Increased rates of chronic physical health conditions across all organ systems in autistic adolescents and adults	7
Understanding the relationship between cerebellar structure and social abilities	7
CRISIS AFAR: an international collaborative study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and service access in youth with autism and neurodevelopmental conditions	7