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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018

Autism sensory dysfunction in an evolutionarily conserved system.

Greta Vilidaite, Anthony M Norcia, Ryan J H West, Christopher J H Elliott, Francesca Pei, Alex R Wade, Daniel H Baker

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Visual Responsivity in Autism: Measuring Visual Responses in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults Using Psychophysics, fMRI, and EEG.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Greta Vilidaite1 Department of Psychology, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305 , USA.
Anthony M Norcia1 Department of Psychology, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305 , USA.
Ryan J H West3 Department of Biology, University of York , York YO10 5DD , UK.
Christopher J H Elliott3 Department of Biology, University of York , York YO10 5DD , UK.
Francesca Pei2 Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305 , USA.
Alex R Wade3 Department of Biology, University of York , York YO10 5DD , UK.
Daniel H Baker4 Department of Psychology, University of York , York YO10 5DD , UK.
University of York · GBStanford University · US

Funding

Wellcome Trust 105624Wellcome Trust 204829
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is increasing evidence for a strong genetic basis for autism, with many genetic models being developed in an attempt to replicate autistic symptoms in animals. However, current animal behaviour paradigms rarely match the social and cognitive behaviours exhibited by autistic individuals. Here, we instead assay another functional domain-sensory processing-known to be affected in autism to test a novel genetic autism model in Drosophila melanogaster. We show similar visual response alterations and a similar development trajectory in Nhe3 mutant flies (total n = 72) and in autistic human participants (total n = 154). We report a dissociation between first- and second-order electrophysiological visual responses to steady-state stimulation in adult mutant fruit flies that is strikingly similar to the response pattern in human adults with ASD as well as that of a large sample of neurotypical individuals with high numbers of autistic traits. We explain this as a genetically driven, selective signalling alteration in transient visual dynamics. In contrast to adults, autistic children show a decrease in the first-order response that is matched by the fruit fly model, suggesting that a compensatory change in processing occurs during development. Our results provide the first animal model of autism comprising a differential developmental phenotype in visual processing.

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Drosophila melanogasterAnimalsAutistic DisorderDisease Models, AnimalModels, GeneticVisual Perceptionanimal modelautismDrosophilasensory processingvisual system

Identifiers

PMID30963913
PMCPMC6304042
OpenAlexW2795450282

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