1. Bebko JM, Schroeder JH, Weiss JA. {{The McGurk Effect in Children With Autism and Asperger Syndrome}}. {Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research}. 2013 Oct 17.
Children with autism may have difficulties in audiovisual speech perception, which has been linked to speech perception and language development. However, little has been done to examine children with Asperger syndrome as a group on tasks assessing audiovisual speech perception, despite this group’s often greater language skills. Samples of children with autism, Asperger syndrome, and Down syndrome, as well as a typically developing sample, were presented with an auditory-only condition, a speech-reading condition, and an audiovisual condition designed to elicit the McGurk effect. Children with autism demonstrated unimodal performance at the same level as the other groups, yet showed a lower rate of the McGurk effect compared with the Asperger, Down and typical samples. These results suggest that children with autism may have unique intermodal speech perception difficulties linked to their representations of speech sounds. Autism Res 2013, : -. (c) 2013 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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2. Lv JW, Cheng TL, Qiu ZL, Zhou WH. {{Role of the PTEN signaling pathway in autism spectrum disorder}}. {Neuroscience bulletin}. 2013 Oct 17.
Autism is an etiologically heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders, diagnosed mostly by the clinical behavioral phenotypes. The concept that the tumor-related gene PTEN plays a critical role in autism spectrum disorder has emerged over the last decade. In this review, we focus on the essential role of the PTEN signaling pathway in neuronal differentiation and the formation of neural circuitry, as well as genetic mouse models with Pten manipulations. Particularly, accumulated data suggest that the effect of PTEN on neural stem-cell development contributes significantly to the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorders.
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3. Percy AK. {{Neuroscience. Path to treat Rett syndrome}}. {Science (New York, NY)}. 2013 Oct 18;342(6156):318-20.
