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Autistic Traits and Suicidality in Midlife and Old Age: Investigating Mediating Effects of Mental Health and Social Connectedness

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Stott J   +10 more
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Are autistic traits autistic?

British Journal of Psychology, 2009
According to the extreme male brain theory of autism (Baron‐Cohen, 2002), autistic traits would be extreme manifestations of typical male behaviours. The Auyeung et al. (2009) paper establishes a link between autistic traits and higher fetal testosterone (fT) levels in typically developing children.
Laurent Mottron   +2 more
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Perceptual inference and autistic traits

Autism, 2014
Autistic people are better at perceiving details. Major theories explain this in terms of bottom-up sensory mechanisms or in terms of top-down cognitive biases. Recently, it has become possible to link these theories within a common framework. This framework assumes that perception is implicit neural inference, combining sensory evidence with prior ...
Skewes, Joshua   +2 more
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The factor structure of autistic traits

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background:  Although DSM‐IV requires symptoms in three criterion domains for a diagnosis of autistic disorder, the extent to which those domains are phenotypically independent is an unanswered and important question. The identification of ‘endophenotypes’ of the autistic syndrome may be very useful for genetic and neurobiologic studies of autism, but ...
Natalie Passanante   +5 more
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Autistic traits as predictors of persistent depression

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2021
Persistent depression has been suggested to be associated with autistic traits in people of working age. This study aimed to clarify which autistic characteristics at the initial visit were associated with persistent depression at the 12 week follow-up in a primary care setting.
Kanako Ishizuka   +4 more
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