News Finding: They suggest that the diagnostic criteria for autism, which emphasize social and communicative impairment, may fail to consider the broad spectrum of problems children with autism experience.
Paper Finding: 2F) , with the sole exception of comparatively extensive representation of parieto-occipital connectivity in posterolateral thalamus.
News Context: "This impaired connectivity suggests that autism is not simply a disorder of social and communicative abilities, but also affects a broad range of sensory and motor systems," Muller said. While the findings reported in this study are novel, they are consistent with growing evidence on sensory and motor abnormalities in autism. They suggest that the diagnostic criteria for autism, which emphasize social and communicative impairment, may fail to consider the broad spectrum of problems children with autism experience.
Paper Context: Overall parcellation in the ASD group was also similar, suggesting that gross regional profiles of thalamocortical anatomical connectivity are not dramatically abnormal in ASD (Fig. 2F) , with the sole exception of comparatively extensive representation of parieto-occipital connectivity in posterolateral thalamus. However, this difference was only seen qualitatively on parcellation results, whereas direct group comparison of probabilistic tractography maps ( Fig.