{"id":127876,"date":"2021-09-20T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/repetitive-behaviors-wax-and-wane-among-autistic-youth"},"modified":"2021-09-20T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:23:27","slug":"repetitive-behaviors-wax-and-wane-among-autistic-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/repetitive-behaviors-wax-and-wane-among-autistic-youth","title":{"rendered":"Repetitive behaviors wax and wane among autistic youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/repetitive-behaviors-wax-and-wane-among-autistic-youth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some types of restricted and repetitive behaviors <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13229-021-00461-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become more prevalent<\/a> among autistic children and teenagers over time, depending on their <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jaac.2021.08.006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">age and intellectual ability<\/a>, whereas others decrease, two new studies show.<\/p>\n<p>The results lend fresh support to the argument that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/wiki\/repetitive-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restricted and repetitive behaviors<\/a> \u2014 a core diagnostic trait that includes repetitive movements, insistence on sameness, sensory sensitivities and restricted interests \u2014 are too diverse to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/diagnostic-manual-may-need-to-separate-repetitive-behaviors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lumped together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a complex behavioral domain that comprises several different subdomains that likely have different causes and might respond to different treatments,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/author\/mirkouljarevic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirko Uljarevi\u0107<\/a>, senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, who led one of the studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some types of restricted and repetitive behaviors become more prevalent among autistic children and teenagers over time, depending on their age and intellectual ability, whereas others decrease, two new studies show. The results lend fresh support to the argument that restricted and repetitive behaviors \u2014 a core diagnostic trait that includes repetitive movements, insistence on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}