Fabio Apicella

TL;DR: The results show dissimilar patterns of cradling preferences during the second half of the first year of life, which might reflect the fact that mother-infant relationship involving children later diagnosed with ASD might remain “basic” because mothers experience a lack of social activity in such children.

TL;DR: Tall stature seems to be a phenotypic “biomarker” of susceptibility to EEG abnormalities or late epilepsy in Autism Spectrum Disorders and, when concurring with macrocephaly, predisposes to early onset seizures.

TL;DR: It is possible to hypothesize that early visual behavior abnormalities may affect experiences that permit learning processes and social and communicative development in infants, and an early assessment of visual behavior, as a core symptom of ASD, might improve the diagnostic processes and might help to developing more individualized treatments.

TL;DR: EEG-based endophenotypes could be useful to untangle the complexity of ASD, helping to establish anatomic or pathophysiologic subtypes of the disorder and possibly define a distinct endophenotype of ASD.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of sex differences on core symptoms of autism and psychiatric comorbidities (PC) in preschoolers with ASD was investigated in a case-control study using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule 2 (ADOS-2) and the CBCL 15-5.