Reply To Scahill: Behavioral Outcome Measures In Autism

We thank Lawrence Scahill for his comments (1) on our use of outcome measures in our clinical trial of sulforaphane in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (2). Scahill identifies some differences in our use of these scales from how they have been used in some other trials, but we believe that our interpretations of the trial results are accurate. We chose the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) because we were especially interested in assessing sociability in autism, which is a cardinal feature of ASD and …