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Open AccessLanguage and sensory characteristics are reflected in voice-evoked responses in low birth weight children
Children born with very low birth weight (VLBW) are at higher risk for cognitive impairment, including language deficits and sensorimotor difficulties. Voice-evoked response (P1m), which has been suggested as ...
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Open AccessPreterm toddlers have low nighttime sleep quality and high daytime activity
A number of studies have been made on the sleep characteristics of children born preterm in an attempt to develop methods to address the sleep problems commonly observed among such children. However, the repor...
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Open AccessRelationship between children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their caregivers and friends during early phase of COVID-19 school closure in Japan: Association with difficulty in implementing infection prevention measures
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic people had to implement various infection prevention measures. Researchers have reported the difficulties experienced by children with neurodevelopmental disorders in implementing ...
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Open AccessSleep maturation influences cognitive development of preterm toddlers
Our recent study on full-term toddlers demonstrated that daytime nap properties affect the distribution ratio between nap and nighttime sleep duration in total sleep time but does not affect the overall total ...
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Open AccessDecreased grey matter volumes in unaffected mothers of individuals with autism spectrum disorder reflect the broader autism endophenotype
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with an early onset and a strong genetic origin. Unaffected relatives may present similar but subthreshold characteristics of ASD. This broader a...
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Open AccessDaytime nap and nighttime breastfeeding are associated with toddlers’ nighttime sleep
The purpose of the present study is to examine the association between toddlers' sleep arrangements and their nighttime sleep duration and other sleep variables. For this investigation, we performed a study in...
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Open AccessMarkers for the central serotonin system correlate to verbal ability and paralinguistic social voice processing in autism spectrum disorder
Impairment in verbal communication abilities has been reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Dysfunction of the serotonergic system has also been reported in ASD. However, it is still unknown how the brai...
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Effect of intranasal oxytocin on the core social symptoms of autism spectrum disorder: a randomized clinical trial
Although small-scale studies have described the effects of oxytocin on social deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), no large-scale study has been conducted. In this randomized, parallel-group, multicente...
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Brief Report: Odour Awareness in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
The elucidation of odour awareness in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is important. We compared the odour awareness of young children with ASD with those of typical development (TD) children usin...
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Open AccessDevelopmental changes in attention to social information from childhood to adolescence in autism spectrum disorders: a comparative study
Elucidating developmental changes in the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is important to support individuals with ASD. However, no report has clarified the developmental changes in attention to soci...
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Open AccessAtypical body movements during night in young children with autism spectrum disorder: a pilot study
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) reportedly suffer from sleep problems at a higher rate than typically develo** (TD) children. Several previous studies have reported differences in sleep indices ...
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Brief Report: A Novel System to Evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Two Humanoid Robots
We investigated the feasibility of our novel evaluation system for use with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We prepared the experimental setting with two humanoid robots in reference to the birt...
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Open AccessBrief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Technological agents could be effective tools to be used in interventions for enhancing social orienting for some young children with ASD. We examined response to social bids in preschool children with ASD and...
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Open AccessThe impact of robotic intervention on joint attention in children with autism spectrum disorders
A growing body of anecdotal evidence indicates that the use of robots may provide unique opportunities for assisting children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, previous studies investigating the e...
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Relationship Between Odor Identification and Visual Distractors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Understanding the nature of olfactory abnormalities is crucial for optimal interventions in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, previous studies that have investigated odor identification i...
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Immobilization of lipase on the surface of a micro tube and continuous transesterification
Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) was cross-linked efficiently, using a reagent containing glutaraldehyde (GA), paraformaldehyde (PA), and a polylysine reagent. For the reaction under micro-flow conditions, CALB...
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Open AccessAltered human voice processing in the frontal cortex and a developmental language delay in 3- to 5-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder
The inferior frontal and superior temporal areas in the left hemisphere are crucial for human language processing. In the present study, we investigated the magnetic mismatch field (MMF) evoked by voice stimul...
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Quantitative Aspects of Communicative Impairment Ascertained in a Large National Survey of Japanese Children
The Japanese version of the Children’s Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-2) was rated by caregivers in a large national population sample of 22,871 children aged 3–15 years. The General Communication Composite (G...
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Open AccessMu rhythm suppression reflects mother-child face-to-face interactions: a pilot study with simultaneous MEG recording
Spontaneous face-to-face interactions between mothers and their children play crucial roles in the development of social minds; however, these inter-brain dynamics are still unclear. In this pilot study, we me...
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Brain Network Efficiency and Intelligent Scores of Children
Graph theory is recently becoming a popular method to study brain functional networks and evaluate efficiency of brain function. However, only a few studies have focused on children. One of the main reasons is...
