ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2025
Exercise Interventions for Autistic People: An Integrative Review of Evidence from Clinical Trials.
Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Exercise dose architecture as a precision-informed developmental framework in autism spectrum disorder: a narrative review of mechanisms, sex- and development-related heterogeneity, and clinical translation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- An Active Approach to Behavior: Exergaming Bike Breaks for Students with Disabilities.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Exercise as an Adjunctive Lifestyle Intervention for Psychiatric Comorbidities in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Physical Fitness Profiles Among Children and Adolescents With ADHD and ASD: A Comparison With Typically Developing Peers.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Iterative Adaptations in a Physical Activity Program for Children with Autism: A Feasibility and Implementation Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sleep and activity patterns in autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Game-based and individualized movement training improves physiological and motor outcomes in young adults with autism spectrum disorder: an experimental study from Türkiye.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- A Review of Therapeutic Approaches for Autism Spectrum Disorder.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Motor Imagery Training Improves Interoception and Satisfaction with Performance.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Improved executive function and sleep quality in preteens with high-functioning autism following a structured physical activity program.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThis review integrates recent findings from randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) research examining the impacts of physical exercise activities on various aspects and areas of functioning for autistic individuals. RECENT
findingsRecent meta-analytic and clinical trials research indicates physical exercise intervention programs improve social and communication skills for autistic children and adolescents, improve executive functioning skills for autistic children, improve sleep-related behavior for autistic children and adolescents, and may be helpful for improving physical health for autistic children. There is very limited RCT research evidence on exercise intervention approaches or impacts for autistic adults, for autistic girls or women, for autistic people with co-occurring intellectual disability, and for reducing negative emotional symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression) for any autistic population. The extant clinical trials research provides convincing, consistent evidence for positive impacts of physical exercise programs on multiple areas of functioning for autistic children and adolescents. Additional research is needed to determine and ensure potential impacts of physical exercise activity programs for important autistic sub-populations, including adults.
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