“…Numerous animal models have been created to tease apart the complex pathophysiology of ASD (Bey & Jiang, ; Hulbert & Jiang, ). One interesting finding from across various models is that housing rodents in an enriched environment, including more space and objects in which to interact and in some cases more rodents, prevents the expression of ASD‐like behavioral phenotypes (Favre et al, ; Garbugino, Centofante, & D'Amato, ; Kerr, Silva, Walz, & Young, ; Kondo et al, ; Lacaria, Spencer, Gu, Paylor, & Lupski, ; Lonetti et al, ; Nag et al, ; Oddi et al, ; Restivo et al, ; Reynolds, Urruela, & Devine, ; Schneider, Turczak, & Przewłocki, ; Yamaguchi et al, ). Although the type of enrichment and the developmental stages during exposure varied considerably, all these previous studies reported improvements on at least one behavioral outcome and seldom reported any adverse effects of enrichment.…”