Autism Research covers research relevant to ASD and closely related neurodevelopmental disorders. The journal focuses on genetic, neurobiological, immunological, epidemiological and psychological mechanisms and how these influence developmental processes in ASD. The journal encourages the submission of original research papers (Research Articles and Short Reports) that take a developmental approach to the biology and psychology of autism, with a particular emphasis on identifying underlying mechanisms and integrating across different levels of analysis. Contributions are typically empirical, but the journal also publishes theoretical papers if they significantly advance thinking. The journal encourages papers reporting work on animals or cell or other model systems that are directly relevant to a better understanding of ASD. The journal also publishes reports of carefully conducted clinical trials of treatments for the core symptoms or one of the common co-morbid symptoms of ASD. Papers presenting clinical trials will be judged, in part, on whether there is an empirical justification for the reported treatment. Individuals included in research studies can span the full spectrum of ASD, including the broader phenotype, and there are no restrictions on study participants in terms of age or intellectual ability.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
David G. Amaral, Ph.D (Beneto Foundation Chair, Director, Autism Center of Excellence, MIND Institute / Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicince, University of California, USA)


ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Evdokia Anagnostou (Bloorview Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada)
Subject Areas: Treatment and Clinical Trials
Raphael Bernier (Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington, USA)
Subject Areas: Omics, Genomics, Genetics, Proteomics, Metabolomics
Daniele Fallin (Blumberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA)
Ralph-Axel Müller (Brain Development Imaging Laboratory, San Diego State University, CA, USA) 
Subject Areas: Neuroimaging and Neuropathology
Peter Mundy (The M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California, Davis, USA)
Subject Areas: Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele (Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric, NY, USA) 
Subject Areas: Animal, Cellular and Computational Model Systems
EDITORIAL BOARD
George M. Anderson (Yale University Child Study Center, CT, USA)
Anthony Bailey (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Vanessa H. Bal (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
Somer Bishop (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA)
Gene J. Blatt (Hussman Institute for Autism, MD, USA)
Susan Bookheimer (University of California, Los Angeles,CA, USA)
Ricardo Canal Bedia (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Tony Charman (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK)
Jacqueline N. Crawley (MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Stephen Dager (University of Washington School of Medicine, WA, USA)
Mirella Dapretto (UCLA Brain Mapping Center, CA, USA)
Geraldine Dawson (Duke University, NC, USA)
Bernie Devlin (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA)
Petrus J. de Vries (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Gabriel S. Dichter (Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina, USA)
Manny DiCicco-Bloom (UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ, USA)
Cheryl Dissanayake (La Trobe University, Australia)
Christine Ecker (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)
Daniel H. Geschwind (David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, CA, USA)
Hilde M. Geurts (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ofer Golan (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Irva Hertz-Picciotto (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Yoko Kamio (Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo, Japan)
Rajesh Kana (University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA)
Dan Kennedy (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA)
Connor Kerns (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Naila Khan (Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Bangladesh)
Frank Kooy (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Hirokazu Kumazaki (Department of Preventive Intervention for Psychiatric Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo, Japan)
Janet Lainhart (Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA)
Nicholas Lange (Harvard University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, MA, USA)
Brian Lee (Drexel University, PA, USA)
Matthew D. Lerner (Stony Brook University, NY, USA)
Pat R. Levitt (Children's Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute, CA, USA)
Catherine Lord (Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, NY, USA)
Katherine A. Loveland (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA)
Nancy J. Minshew (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA)
Eric Morrow (Brown University, RI, USA)
Declan G. Murphy (Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK)
Charles Newton (KEMRI-Wellcome Programme, Kenya / Muhimbili-Wellcome Programme, Tanzania / University of Oxford, UK)
Christine Wu Nordahl (MIND Institute University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Brian J. O'Roak (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA)
Sally Ozonoff (MIND Institute University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Kevin A. Pelphrey (Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, The George Washington University, DC, USA)
Jennifer Pinto-Martin (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
Alexia Rattazzi (PANAACEA, Argentina)
Sally J. Rogers (MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Rebecca J. Schmidt (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Laura Schreibman (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
Robert T. Schultz (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Matthew W. State (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA)
Wendy L. Stone (University of Washington, WA, USA)
Helen Tager-Flusberg (Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA)
Judy Van de Water (MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Yi Wang (Children's Hospital of Fudan University, China)
Stephen T. Warren (Emory University School of Medicine, GA, USA)
Sara J. Webb (University of Washington Autism Center, WA, USA)
Andrew Whitehouse (Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Australia)
Nurit Yirmiya (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)