Open AccessReply to Scahill: Behavioral outcome measures in autism
Author(s) -
Paul Talalay,
Andrew W. Zimmerman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1422473112
Subject(s) - autism , outcome (game theory) , psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , mathematics , mathematical economics
We thank Lawrence Scahill for his comments (1) on our use of outcome measures in our clinical trial of sulforaphane in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (2). Scahill identifies some differences in our use of these scales from how they have been used in some other trials, but we believe that our interpretations of the trial results are accurate. We chose the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) because we were especially interested in assessing sociability in autism, which is a cardinal feature of ASD and …
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