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Psychological, behavioural and biological factors associated with gastrointestinal symptoms in autistic adults and adults with autistic traits

open access: yesAutism, 2023
Gastrointestinal symptoms and their relation to physical and mental aspects in adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are poorly understood, despite their high prevalence.
E. Warreman   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Autism and autistic traits in those who died by suicide in England

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychiatry, 2022
Background Autism and autistic traits are risk factors for suicidal behaviour. Aims To explore the prevalence of autism (diagnosed and undiagnosed) in those who died by suicide, and identify risk factors for suicide in this group.
Sarah A. Cassidy   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Autistic traits, emotion regulation, and sensory sensitivities in children and adults with Misophonia

open access: yesJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Misophonia is an unusually strong aversion to everyday sounds such as chewing, crunching, or breathing. Previous studies have suggested that rates of autism might be elevated in misophonia, and here we examine this claim in detail.
L. J. Rinaldi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are autistic traits measured equivalently in individuals with and without an Autism Spectrum Disorder?:An invariance analysis of the Autism Spectrum Quotient Short Form [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It is common to administer measures of autistic traits to those without autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) with, for example, the aim of understanding autistic personality characteristics in non-autistic individuals. Little research has examined the extent
Aja L. Murray   +35 more
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Centering the Inner Experience of Autism: Development of the Self-Assessment of Autistic Traits

open access: yesAutism in Adulthood, 2022
Current tools for identifying autism are critiqued for their lack of specificity and sensitivity, especially in autistic people who are older, have higher verbal ability or significant compensatory skills, and are not cisgender boys. This may reflect the
Allison B. Ratto   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Power and Autistic Traits [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Autistic traits can help people gain and sustain power, and has probably done so throughout history, says the present paper. A number of testable claims follow from this assumption. First, the powerful should have more autistic traits than others - which they do appear to have.
openaire   +5 more sources

The prevalence of autistic traits in a homeless population [PDF]

open access: yesAutism, 2018
Anecdotal evidence suggests that autistic people experience an elevated risk of homelessness, but systematic empirical research on this topic is lacking. As a step towards filling this gap in knowledge, we conducted a preliminary investigation of the prevalence of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) autism symptoms in a ...
Alasdair Churchard   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Strong genetic influences on the stability of autistic traits in childhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Objective: Disorders on the autism spectrum, as well as autistic traits in the general population, have been found to be both highly stable across age and highly heritable at individual ages.
Hallett, V.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Bottom-up vs. top-down connectivity imbalance in individuals with high-autistic traits: An electroencephalographic study

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022
Brain connectivity is often altered in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, there is little consensus on the nature of these alterations, with studies pointing to either increased or decreased connectivity strength across the broad autism spectrum ...
M. Ursino   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prominent autistic traits and subthreshold bipolar/mixed features of depression in severe anorexia nervosa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Autistic traits are associated with a burdensome clinical presentation of anorexia nervosa (AN), as is AN with concurrent depression. The aim of the present study was to explore the intertwined association between complex psychopathology combining ...
Anastasia, Annalisa   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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