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ArticleAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2023

Autism severity and its relationship to disability.

Einat Waizbard-Bartov, Deborah Fein, Catherine Lord, David G Amaral

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Article in Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07427940 (Omic Profile in Autism Spectrum Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07427940 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

Omic Profile in Autism Spectrum Disorder: From Cellular Level Towards Future Treatments

TypeinterventionalSponsorFondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo BestaRan2024 to 2026Enrolled100ConditionsAutism Spectrum DisorderArmsBlood sample collection for ASD cells model production and Omic studies
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Event- and Time-Based Prospective Memory and Time Perception in Autistic Adults With and Without Intellectual Disabilities.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  12. Novel therapeutics in autism spectrum disorder.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  15. Trajectories of autism symptom severity for boys and girls across childhood.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Einat Waizbard-BartovDepartment of Psychology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3736-7167
Deborah FeinDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
Catherine LordDepartments of Psychiatry and Human Development and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5633-1253
David G AmaralThe MIND Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1525-8744
University of California, Davis · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of Connecticut · US

Funding

Predicting and Otimizing Language Outcomes in Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum DisorderP50DC018006 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI KASARI, CONNIE L., TAGER-FLUSBERG, HELEN · 2019 to 2023
$12.3M
Specifying and Treating the Anxiety Phenotype in Autism Spectrum DisorderP50HD093079 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI YOUNG, GREGORY S · 2017 to 2021
$11.4M
Brain and Behavioral Development in Autism Spectrum DisorderR01MH128814 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI David G Amaral, Christine Wu Nordahl · 2022 to 2026
$4.0M
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD093079NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC018006NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH128814
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism severity is currently defined and measured based exclusively on the severity levels of the two core symptom domains: social-communication and restricted or repetitive patterns of behaviors and interests. Autistic individuals, however, are often diagnosed with other medical, developmental, and psychological co-occurring conditions. These additional challenges such as intellectual disability, limited expressive and/or receptive language, and anxiety disorders, can have a tremendous impact on the day-to-day lives of autistic individuals, for both their adaptive functioning as well as their sense of wellbeing. Furthermore, the initial presentation of core symptoms and their likelihood of changing over time are influenced by the presence of such co-occurring conditions. In order to truly understand how a person's autism impacts their life, both core symptoms as well as other challenges should be considered. This approach was recently taken byThe Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism, which proposed the term "profound autism" for a subgroup of individuals presenting with high core symptom severity, co-occurring intellectual disability, and little or no language, who require extensive long-term care. Considering other individual factors such as daily living skills, specific support needs and environmental resources would also enhance the evaluation of disability in autistic individuals. As currently employed in the assessment of intellectual disability, a multidimensional approach to autism could provide a more comprehensive system for classification of impairment. At present, however, there is no formal way to designate the combined effect of these different aspects of autism on a person's life. A comprehensive outlook that acknowledges impairments, capabilities, co-occurring conditions, and environmental factors would be useful for identifying subgroups of individuals as well as for determining individual needs and strengths in clinical assessments.

Indexed as

Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderIntellectual DisabilityAnxiety DisordersHumansADOS calibrated severity scoreautism severityautism spectrum disorderautism symptomsprofound autismsymptom severity change

Identifiers

PMID36786314
PMCPMC10500663
OpenAlexW4320710418

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