Introduction to commentary by Laurent Mottron and responses
David G. Amaral
Abstract
Commentaries and review articles are a regular feature of Autism Research and we invite our readers to suggest topics that they would like to cover in one of these formats. Submission of a commentary or review article must be approved before submission. For the commentary that follows, Professor Laurent Mottron has tackled a controversial issue related to how best to most efficiently pursue Autism Research in the future. We suspected that there may be a diverse set of opinions of his proposal and we solicited some short responses from several autism researchers. We received thoughtful responses from John N. Constantino, MD, Michael V. Lombardo, PhD, and Christopher Gillberg, MD, PhD. A response to the response was then provided by Professor Mottron. I believe that this is a thought-provoking series of essays which hopefully will lead to further discussions on this topic. If others would like to respond to this commentary, we would welcome additional letters to the editor submitted as usual through the ScholarOne Autism Research website.