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Papers

(The median citation count of Molecular Autism is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Affect and gaze responses during an Emotion-Evoking Task in infants at an increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	77
Dietary zinc supplementation rescues fear-based learning and synaptic function in the Tbr1+/− mouse model of autism spectrum disorders	73
Diagnostic validity of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, second edition (K-ADOS-2) in the Korean population	54
Dynamic functional adaptations during touch observation in autism: connectivity strength is linked to attitudes towards social touch and social responsiveness	53
Sex-specific and sex-independent steroid-related biomarkers in early second trimester maternal serum associated with autism	52
Atypical functional connectivity of temporal cortex with precuneus and visual regions may be an early-age signature of ASD	50
Transcallosal white matter and cortical gray matter variations in autistic adults aged 30–73 years	45
Rescuing epileptic and behavioral alterations in a Dravet syndrome mouse model by inhibiting eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K)	41
Salivary testosterone in male and female youth with and without autism spectrum disorder: considerations of development, sex, and diagnosis	38
The Monash Autism-ADHD genetics and neurodevelopment (MAGNET) project design and methodologies: a dimensional approach to understanding neurobiological and genetic aetiology	36
The association between social camouflage and mental health among autistic people in Japan and the UK: a cross-cultural study	36
Sensory salience processing moderates attenuated gazes on faces in autism spectrum disorder: a case–control study	34
A proof-of-concept study of growth hormone in children with Phelan–McDermid syndrome	32
Additive interaction between birth asphyxia and febrile seizures on autism spectrum disorder: a population-based study	31
Autistic and non-autistic individuals show the same amygdala activity during emotional face processing	30
Comparative profiling of white matter development in the human and mouse brain reveals volumetric deficits and delayed myelination in Angelman syndrome	30
Association of polygenic scores for autism with volumetric MRI phenotypes in cerebellum and brainstem in adults	28
Altered interactive dynamics of gaze behavior during face-to-face interaction in autistic individuals: a dual eye-tracking study	28
Autistic adults have poorer quality healthcare and worse health based on self-report data	27
Increased cerebral lactate levels in adults with autism spectrum disorders compared to non-autistic controls: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study	27
Better statistical reporting does not lead to statistical rigour: lessons from two decades of pseudoreplication in mouse-model studies of neurological disorders	27
SETD5 haploinsufficiency affects mitochondrial compartment in neural cells	26
Phenotypic differences between female and male individuals with suspicion of autism spectrum disorder	26
Neuroligin-2 shapes individual slow waves during slow-wave sleep and the response to sleep deprivation in mice	26
Shank2 identifies a subset of glycinergic neurons involved in altered nociception in an autism model	25

Characterizing genetic pathways unique to autism spectrum disorder at multiple levels of biological analysis	25
Developmental trajectories in infants and pre-school children with Neurofibromatosis 1	24
Examining the effect of a wearable, anxiety detection technology on improving the awareness of anxiety signs in autism spectrum disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial	24
Neurodevelopmental impairments in children with septo-optic dysplasia spectrum conditions: a systematic review	23
Socio-affective communication in Tph2-deficient rat pups: communal nesting aggravates growth retardation despite ameliorating maternal affiliation deficits	22
Large multicenter randomized trials in autism: key insights gained from the balovaptan clinical development program	21
Genetic and environmental contributions to co-occurring physical health conditions in autism spectrum condition and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	21
Increased rates of chronic physical health conditions across all organ systems in autistic adolescents and adults	21
Impact of imitation abilities on social communication in autistic children: evidence from an Early Start Denver Model intervention study	20
Infants later diagnosed with autism have lower canonical babbling ratios in the first year of life	20
Atypical maturation of the functional connectome hierarchy in autism	19
Sex differences in friendships and loneliness in autistic and non-autistic children across development	19
Trajectory of depressive symptoms over adolescence in autistic and neurotypical youth	18
Childhood diagnoses in individuals identified as autistics in adulthood	18
Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor-induced macrophages of individuals with autism spectrum disorder adversely affect neuronal dendrites through the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokine	17
Immune activation during pregnancy exacerbates ASD-related alterations in Shank3-deficient mice	17
Imbalance of flight–freeze responses and their cellular correlates in the Nlgn3−/y rat model of autism	17
Do autistic individuals show atypical performance in probabilistic learning? A comparison of cue-number, predictive strength, and prediction error	16
Sex differences in social and emotional insight in youth with and without autism	16
Auditory N1 event-related potential amplitude is predictive of serum concentration of BPN14770 in fragile X syndrome	16
Prospective association of the infant gut microbiome with social behaviors in the ECHO consortium	16
Linking functional and structural brain organisation with behaviour in autism: a multimodal EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) study	15
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	15
Maternal vitamin D during pregnancy and offspring autism and autism-associated traits: a prospective cohort study	15
Correction to: The relevance of the interpersonal theory of suicide for predicting past-year and lifetime suicidality in autistic adults	15
Molecular architecture of the altered cortical complexity in autism	15
Investigating frank autism: clinician initial impressions and autism characteristics	14
Autistic adults benefit from and enjoy learning via social interaction as much as neurotypical adults do	14
Clinical impact and in vitro characterization of ADNP variants in pediatric patients	14
Naturally occurring low sociality in female rhesus monkeys: A tractable model for autism or not?	14
De novo variants in CACNA1E found in patients with intellectual disability, developmental regression and social cognition deficit but no seizures	14
Access to services for autistic people across Europe	13
Atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults are heterogeneous across but reliable within individuals	13
Measuring self and informant perspectives of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours (RRBs): psychometric evaluation of the Repetitive Behaviours Questionnaire-3 (RBQ-3) in adult clinical practice and re	13
Age-related changes in brain signal variability in autism spectrum disorder	13
Early life sleep disruption potentiates lasting sex-specific changes in behavior in genetically vulnerable Shank3 heterozygous autism model mice	13
Impaired synaptic function and hyperexcitability of the pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex of autism-associated Shank3 mutant dogs	13
The subcortical correlates of autistic traits in school-age children: a population-based neuroimaging study	12
Prediction learning in adults with autism and its molecular correlates	12
Autistic and transgender/gender diverse people’s experiences of health and healthcare	12
Impaired neurogenesis and neural progenitor fate choice in a human stem cell model of SETBP1 disorder	12
Autism-associated gene shank3 is necessary for social contagion in zebrafish	12
Prevalence and phenotypic impact of rare potentially damaging variants in autism spectrum disorder	12
Nonshared environmental factors in the aetiology of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions: a monozygotic co-twin control study	11
Exploring sensory phenotypes in autism spectrum disorder	11
White matter microstructural and morphometric alterations in autism: implications for intellectual capabilities	11
Profiles of autism characteristics in thirteen genetic syndromes: a machine learning approach	11
Infant excitation/inhibition balance interacts with executive attention to predict autistic traits in childhood	10
Translatome analysis of tuberous sclerosis complex 1 patient-derived neural progenitor cells reveals rapamycin-dependent and independent alterations	10
Correction to: The Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI): development and validation of a new measure of autistic traits in the general population	10

Autism screening at 18 months of age: a comparison of the Q-CHAT-10 and M-CHAT screeners	10
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	10
Autism-associated protein POGZ controls ESCs and ESC neural induction by association with esBAF	10
Correction: Understanding the relationship between cerebellar structure and social abilities	9
A 3D approach to understanding heterogeneity in early developing autisms	9
Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis	9
Shank3 deletion in PV neurons is associated with abnormal behaviors and neuronal functions that are rescued by increasing GABAergic signaling	9
Mapping neural correlates of biological motion perception in autistic children using high-density diffuse optical tomography	9
Systematic review and meta-analysis: multimodal functional and anatomical neural alterations in autism spectrum disorder	8
Altered frontal connectivity as a mechanism for executive function deficits in fragile X syndrome	8
Deletion of Fmr1 in parvalbumin-expressing neurons results in dysregulated translation and selective behavioral deficits associated with fragile X syndrome	8
Inter-individual heterogeneity of functional brain networks in children with autism spectrum disorder	8
A systematic review and meta-analysis of suicidality in autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability	8
Friend matters: sex differences in social language during autism diagnostic interviews	8
Tau reduction attenuates autism-like features in Fmr1 knockout mice	8
Experience-dependent changes in hippocampal spatial activity and hippocampal circuit function are disrupted in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome	7
Understanding the relationship between cerebellar structure and social abilities	7
Subgrouping autism and ADHD based on structural MRI population modelling centiles	7
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for irritability in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis with the GRADE assessment	7
Impact of chronic intranasal oxytocin administration on face expression processing in autistic children: a randomized controlled trial using fMRI	7
Deciphering the genetic basis of developmental language disorder in children without intellectual disability, autism or apraxia of speech	7
Beyond the three-chamber test: toward a multimodal and objective assessment of social behavior in rodents	6
Delineating the autistic phenotype in children with neurofibromatosis type 1	6
Spontaneous instrumental approach-avoidance learning in social contexts in autism	6
Cortico-basal ganglia white matter microstructure is linked to restricted repetitive behavior in autism spectrum disorder	6
Correction to: Biological motion perception in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis	6
A cross-cultural examination of bi-directional mentalising in autistic and non-autistic adults	6
Non-verbal IQ and change in restricted and repetitive behavior throughout childhood in autism: a longitudinal study using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised	6
Structure-function coupling in white matter uncovers the hypoconnectivity in autism spectrum disorder	6
Identifying SETBP1 haploinsufficiency molecular pathways to improve patient diagnosis using induced pluripotent stem cells and neural disease modelling	5
White matter microstructure as a potential contributor to differences in resting state alpha activity between neurotypical and autistic children: a longitudinal multimodal imaging study	5
Predictability modulates neural response to eye contact in ASD	5
Visual attention and inhibitory control in children, teenagers and adults with autism without intellectual disability: results of oculomotor tasks from a 2-year longitudinal follow-up study (InFoR)	5
The activation of mGluR4 rescues parallel fiber synaptic transmission and LTP, motor learning and social behavior in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome	5
The biosocial correlates and predictors of emotion dysregulation in autistic adults compared to borderline personality disorder and nonclinical controls	5
Knockout of Tmlhe in mice is not associated with autism spectrum disorder phenotypes or motor dysfunction despite low carnitine levels	5
Atypical early neural responses to native and non-native language in infants at high likelihood for developing autism	5