Autism is a behavior disorder with genetic influences indicated from twin and family studies and from the co-occurrence of autism with known genetic disorders. Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a known genetic disorder with behavioral manifestations including autism. A literature review of these two disorders substantiates a significant association of autism and TSC with 17-58% of TSC subject...

The work presented in this paper is part of a larger project in which online asynchronous discussion groups were employed to examine how a range of contributors--including people with autism, parents of people with autism, and professionals working within the field of autism--view and understand autism. In this paper, we focus on the voices of people with autism. The terminology used in the pap...

OBJECTIVE Oxytocin (OT) has been implicated to play an important role in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) etiology. We aimed to find out the differences in plasma OT levels between children with autism and healthy children, the associations of OT levels with particular autism symptoms and the associations of particular parental autistic traits with their ASD children OT levels. METHODS We incl...

objectives: autism spectrum disorder (asd) is a group of neurodevelopment syndromes with impairments in social communications and restrictive or repetitive behaviors. neurofeedback is a new method that may regulate neuro and metabolic function in brain. this study is semi-experimental, with pre and post test.  methods: in 26 children with asd, 40 sessions of neurofeedback were done. brain waves...

conclusions examining postural control as an endophenotype or early diagnostic marker of autism is a conceptual premise which should be considered in future investigations. at the end of the review, methodological recommendations on the assessment of postural control have also been provided. results individuals with asd have problems in maintaining postural control in infancy that well persists...

asd or autism spectrum diorders are the most strange psychological disorders in which children can’t show their emotions, fears and anxiety as soon as the normal children. they suffer from the social interactions , the stereotypic behaviors and verbal skills impairments and these problems can lead to withdrawal and other behavioral problems. among the psychological strategies, art therapy is on...

objective: the present study has been carried out to develop social cognition interventional program (scip) based on theory of mind (tom), and to investigate its effects on high-functional autistic (hfa) children's social function. methods: present study was completely experimental and its participants were randomly assigned to an experimental or a control group (among 14 hfa, 7 in experim...

introduction children with autism may experience unique adverse effects, which result in social restrictions and high stress in the parents, especially the mother. this research aims to determine the effectiveness of group training program relevant to stress management on improvement of quality of life and its dimensions (mental health, physical health, social adjustment, and environmental heal...

the aim of the present study was to compare the broader autism phenotype in iranian parents of children with autism spectrum disorders and parents of typically developing children.parents of children with asd and parents of typically developing children were asked to complete the persian version of the autism spectrum quotient (aq). in the asd group, families included 204 parents (96 fathers an...