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Autism spectrum disorders: clinical and research frontiers
Author(s) -
Reading Richard
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00879_4.x
Subject(s) - autism , autism spectrum disorder , affect (linguistics) , psychology , psychiatry , clinical practice , cognition , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , communication , family medicine
Autism spectrum disorders: clinical and research frontiers.
Caronna E. B. , Milunsky J. M. & Tager‐Flusberg H.(2008)Archives of Disease in Childhood,93,518–523.
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.115337.Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are common neurodevelopmental disorders that occur along a broad continuum of severity with impairments in social interactions, communication and behaviour. This review highlights recent advances in autism research that shed light on the causes of the disorder and that have implications for clinical practice. It focuses on (1) the rising prevalence of ASD with attention given to recent epidemiological studies, (2) important genetic discoveries that may affect clinical evaluation of children with ASD, (3) active areas of research in cognitive neuroscience that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms of a complex disorder and (4) important studies on clinical populations with implications for screening and early identification of infants and toddlers with ASD.