Scientists at the University of Cambridge have completed the world's largest ever study of typical sex differences and autistic traits. They tested and confirmed two long-standing psychological theories: the Empathizing-Systemizing ...
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(Medical Xpress)—People with autism might live in a "magical world" in which it's impossible to know what will happen next. Richard Held of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues have hypothesized that ...
Fewer females may be diagnosed with autism due to misconceptions that autism is a male condition, new research has found.
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Adults with high levels of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than adults with high levels of autistic traits, according to new research led by psychologists ...
Jan 16, 2023
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A new study published today suggests that how empathic we are is not just a result of our upbringing and experience but also partly a result of our genes.
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Researchers at The University of Queensland's Queensland Brain Institute have found a link between vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy and increased autism traits.
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich together with colleagues in Cologne and Zürich have used mathematical models to explain differences in social behaviour associated with autistic personality ...
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(Medical Xpress)—Autistic traits diagnosed in early childhood, including communication problems and adaptive behavior deficits, tend to persist into adulthood. A very few autistic individuals demonstrate improvement in ...
A low dose of the sedative clonazepam alleviated autistic-like behavior in mice with a mutation that causes Dravet syndrome in humans, University of Washington researchers have shown.
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King's College London researchers have shown that the brain chemical GABA regulates activity in the retina of the eye in autistic and non-autistic individuals differently. Autistic people have larger responses to single light ...
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