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Social and attention factors during infancy and the later emergence of autism characteristics [PDF]
Characteristic features of autism include atypical social perception and social–communication skills, and atypical visual attention, alongside rigid and repetitive thinking and behavior.
Johnson, Mark +40 more
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Parent–infant interaction in infant siblings at risk of autism [PDF]
Recent models of the early emergence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) propose an interaction between risk susceptibility and the infant's social environment, resulting in a progressively atypical developmental trajectory.
Johnson, Mark +17 more
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Background Traits and characteristics qualitatively similar to those seen in diagnosed autism spectrum disorder can be found to varying degrees in the general population.
Michael C. W. English +5 more
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A Relationship between the Broader Autism Phenotype and empathy among students
Previous research has shown that persons with a higher level of the broad autism phenotype (BAP) experience deficits in empathy. The aim of the present study is to investigate a multivariate relationship between the BAP and different aspects of empathy.
Bojan Dučić +2 more
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The FMR1 gene in its premutation (PM) state has been linked to a range of clinical and subclinical phenotypes among FMR1 PM carriers, including some subclinical traits associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Nell Maltman +15 more
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Autistic traits and autism spectrum disorders : the clinical validity of two measures presuming a continuum of social communication skills [PDF]
Research indicates that autism is the extreme end of a continuously distributed trait. The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) and the Social and Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC) aim to assess autistic traits.
Westerwald, Eva +18 more
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Gender ratio in a clinical population sample, age of diagnosis and duration of assessment in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. [PDF]
This article reports on gender ratio, age of diagnosis and the duration of assessment procedures in autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in a national study which included all types of clinical services for children and adults. Findings are reported from a
Rutherford, Marion +19 more
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Difficulties with pragmatic language (i.e., language in social contexts, such as conversational ability) are a noted characteristic of the language profiles of both fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), conditions which show ...
Lauren Bush +4 more
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Precursors to social and communication difficulties in infants at-risk for autism: gaze following and attentional engagement [PDF]
Whilst joint attention (JA) impairments in autism have been widely studied, little is known about the early development of gaze following, a precursor to establishing JA.
Johnson, Mark H. +16 more
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a broad range of neurobiological characteristics, including alterations in dendritic spines, where approximately 90% of excitatory synapses occur.
Isabel Barón-Mendoza +5 more
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