BookAndrew W. Zimmerman, editor.
Contents:
ENGRAILED2 and cerebellar development in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorders / Ian T. Rossman and Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom
Teratogenic alleles in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders / William G. Johnson ... [et al.]
Cholesterol deficit in autism : insights from Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome / Alka Aneja and Elaine Tierney
Autism in genetic intellectual disability : insights into idiopathic autism / Walter E. Kaufmann ... [et al.]
Serotonin dysfunction in autism / Mary E. Blue ... [et al.]
Excitotoxicity in autism : the role of glutamate in pathogenesis and treatment / Martin Evers and Eric Hollander
Prenatal [beta]₂-adrenergic receptor signaling and autism : dysmaturation and retained fetal function / Susan L. Connors
A role for fetal testosterone in human sex differences : implications for understanding autism / Bonnie Auyeung and Simon Baron-Cohen
Interaction between genetic vulnerability and neurosteroids in purkinje cells as a possible neurobiological mechanism in autism spectrum disorders / Flavio Keller, Roger Panteri, and Filippo Biamonte
Insulin-like growth factors : neurobiological regulators of brain growth in autism? / Raili Riikonen
Oxidative stress and the metabolic pathology of autism / S. Jill James
The immune system in autism : is there a connection? / Luke Heuer, Paul Ashwood, and Judy Van de Water
Maternal immune activation, cytokines, and autism / Paul H. Patterson ... [et al.]
Maternal antibodies and the placental-fetal IgG transfer theory / Christina M. Morris ... [et al.]
Can neuroinflammation influence the development of autism spectrum disorders? / Carlos A. Pardo-Villamizar
The significance of minicolumnar size variability in autism : a perspective from comparative anatomy / Manuel F. Casanova
Imaging evidence for pathological brain development in autism spectrum disorders / Stephen R. Dager ... [et al.]
Information processing, neural connectivity, and neuronal organization / Nancy J. Minshew, Diane L. Williams, and Kathryn McFadden
Evidence for environmental susceptibility in autism : what we need to know about gene x environment interactions / Isaac N. Pessah and Pamela J. Lein
An expanding spectrum of autism models : from fixed developmental defects to reversible functional impairments / Martha R. Herbert and Matthew P. Anderson.