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    This editorial discusses moving from a singular definition of autism to recognizing autisms (plural) as a spectrum of disorders with diverse causes, presentations, and outcomes. It aims to provide an updated resource on autism research through peer-reviewed articles on personalized diagnostics, neuroimaging, neuropathology, clinical measures, underlying biological theories, and effective treatments. The journal will also accept opinions from families and institutions supporting those with autism to foster open discussion across disciplines.

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    DOI: 10.29011/2642-3227.000026

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    International Journal of
    Autism & Related Disabilities
    Iacono D. Int J Autism & Relat Disabil 2: 126.

    Editorial DOI: 10.29011/2642-3227.000026

    From Autism to Autisms


    Diego Iacono*
    Neurodevelopmental Research Lab, Biomedical Research Institute of New Jersey (BRINJ) And Midatlantic Neonatology Associates
    (MANA), Morristown, Atlantic Health System (AHS), Morristown, New Jersey, USA
    *
    Corresponding author: Diego Iacono, Neurodevelopmental Research Lab, Biomedical Research Institute of New Jersey (BRINJ),
    Cedar Knolls, Neuropathology Research, Biomedical Research Institute of New Jersey (BRINJ) And Midatlantic Neonatology
    Associates (MANA), Morristown, Atlantic Health System (AHS), Morristown, New Jersey, USA. Email(s): [email protected];
    [email protected]
    Citation: Iacono D (2019) From Autism to Autisms. Int J Autism & Relat Disabil 2: 126. DOI: 10.29011/2642-3227.000026
    Received Date: 24 September, 2019; Accepted Date: 01 October, 2019; Published Date: 04 October, 2019

    After more than 75 years since Leo Kanner - the first child for a wider and more detailed understanding of the relationship
    psychiatrist that used the term autism to describe the “Autistic between human brain and human behavior during development.
    Disturbance of Affective Contact” in his classic paper of the In order to do so, we would like to emphasize that the editorial
    1943 [1] - this unique neurodevelopmental disorder remains, board and publisher of this journal will work hard to present to all
    roughly, a mystery in terms of both etiology and neuropathology folks interested in autism research, or people directly involved in
    features, and more importantly, in terms of effective treatments. the autism issues that is, doctors/researchers and families, a new
    Moreover, since the very first formal definition of this disorder and reliable repository of data on the autism, or autisms, jointly
    in 1980 (DSM III) [2], other three major changes of definition with any type of biological and non-biological factor confirmed to
    have been proposed during the last three decades [3-6]. These be tightly related to different forms of autism and autism-related
    multiple changes of the operational definition of autism generated, disabilities. In fact, we strongly believe that autism is not a single
    actually, a series of ripple effects concerning the proper (clinical disease, but rather a cluster of different diseases, and possibly
    criteria-based) definition of the epidemiological features, clinical different pathobiological mechanisms, with a central core of
    measurements, behavioral and emotional assessments, clinico- symptomatology in common across different individuals but with
    pathological correlations, genetic studies, neuroimaging analyses, a wide set of different types of cognitive-behavioral declines in
    etiopathogenetic hypotheses and animal modeling, as well as for each single subject that is, with a vast and different gamma of
    the identification of preventive or protective factors for the autism behavioral and prognostic outcomes different in each affected
    and, ultimately, determined issues on how to measure the economic individual. Also, we would like to emphasize, peer-reviewing
    impact of this disorder across different health systems, or for process of the articles published in this journal, the medical and
    establishing specific public health policies to provide guidelines to social urgency for the production of more and more scientific and
    take the best possible care of individuals affected by this pervasive robust data on the following aspects:
    illness and their families. • Personalized-medicine based tools to tune the current
    While honored and privileged to have been proposed as diagnostic tools on a more accurate definition of the different
    the new Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Autism & types of sub-types of autism;
    Related Disabilities, it is my strongest wish and intention to put • Advancement of neuroimaging longitudinal studies focusing
    major efforts in making sure that the readership of this specialized on specific autism aspects across all ages;
    journal will consider our publications as new and updated tools of
    • Define obvious and subtle neuropathological aspects from
    knowledge and scientific acquisition in the field. brains of subjects across the entire autistic spectrum disorder
    Our editorial goal is indeed to provide and share the most and correlate neuropathological age-related features with
    valuable experimental and evidence-based findings in the field of clinical aspects in each individual (personalized medicine in
    autism and autism-related conditions as well as one of the main the context of neurodevelopmental disorders);
    sources of robust new findings, both for clinicians and researchers, • Detailed criteria-based description of all clinical measures
    interested in the effective advancement of the autism field and that mostly disable autistic individuals with different types of

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    Citation: Iacono D (2019) From Autism to Autisms. Int J Autism & Relat Disabil 2: 126. DOI: 10.29011/2642-3227.000026

    co-morbidities also as provided by caregivers, families and rigor and data reproducibility, ethically-reviewed procedures
    patients as well; attention, clarity and web-openness. Also, we will pay attention
    • Provide unifying theories (biologically-based) on genetic, to any new possible editorial initiative that could take advantage
    environmental, and behavioral aspects in primary of technological innovations (including digital tools, videos,
    autistic disorders vs. autism-trait characteristics in other webinars, etc.) that could definitively represent an operative tool
    neurodevelopmental non-primarily autistic disorders; of knowledge and scientific education in the autism field and
    neurodevelopmental disorders in general.
    • Specific studies on the autisms across different sexes, races
    and cultures; References
    • Autisms and aging; 1. Kanner L (1943) Autistic disturbances of affective contact. Nervous
    Child 2: 217-250.
    • New technologies and autisms: how high-tech tools can
    improve the life of autistic individuals; 2. APA (1980) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
    DSM–III. American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC.
    • “The family corner”: this journal will be open to accept
    letters of opinions from families, educational communities or 3. APA (1987) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
    autism-related institutions that deal, on a daily basis, with any DSM–III–R. American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC.
    medical, social or any other aspects of autism; 4. APA (1994) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
    • New and effective pharmacological and non-pharmacological DSM–IV. American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC.
    treatments. 5. APA (2000) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
    DSM–IV–TR. American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC.
    Finally, the editorial board and I would like to emphasize the
    following strict policy points for any type of article published in 6. APA (2013) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th
    ed.), DSM 5. American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC.
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