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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2025

Mechanisms of brain overgrowth in autism spectrum disorder with macrocephaly.

Laura Currey, Tracey Harvey, Alexandra Pelenyi, Michael Piper, Stefan Thor

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Laura CurreySchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.
Tracey HarveySchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.
Alexandra PelenyiSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.
Michael PiperSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.
Stefan ThorSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly prevalent human disorder with extensive clinical and genetic heterogeneity. One notable ASD subgroup that often manifest with more severe symptoms comprises individuals with an enlarged head (macrocephaly), often accompanied by an enlarged brain (megalencephaly). Here, we focus on the macrocephalic ASD subgroup and discuss the biological processes that may underlie brain overgrowth in individuals with ASD, including excess neurogenesis or gliogenesis, decreased cell death, neuronal hypertrophy, and elevated myelination. We also discuss the signaling and epigenetic pathways implicated in macrocephalic ASD. By examining the biological processes and the molecular pathways involved we seek to provide insight into the mechanisms underpinning macrocephalic ASD.

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ASDautism (autism spectrum disorders)megalencephalyneurogenesisovergrowth

Identifiers

PMID40548072
PMCPMC12179084

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