Maternal age, autistic-like traits and mentalizing as predictors of child autistic-like traits in a population-based cohort by Novika Purnama Sari, Pauline W. Jansen, Laura M. E. Blanken, Amber N. V. Ruigrok, Peter Prinzie, Henning Tiemeier, Simon Baron-Cohen, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Tonya White

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Is the association between mothers’ autistic traits and childhood autistic traits moderated by maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index? by Novika Purnama Sari, Alexandros Tsompanidis, Rama J. Wahab, Romy Gaillard, Ezra Aydin, Rosemary Holt, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Pauline W. Jansen

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Fetal brain growth and infant autistic traits by Ezra Aydin, Alex Tsompanidis, Daren Chaplin, Rebecca Hawkes, Carrie Allison, Gerald Hackett, Topun Austin, Eglė Padaigaitė, Lidia V. Gabis, John Sucking, Rosemary Holt, Simon Baron-Cohen

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Mini-puberty testosterone and infant autistic traits by Alex Tsompanidis, Sarah Hampton, Ezra Aydin, Carrie Allison, Rosemary Holt, Simon Baron-Cohen

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Extraction and generalisation of category-level information during visual statistical learning in autistic people. by Owen Parsons, Simon Baron-Cohen

“…We then looked at whether performance in autistic people differed to non-autistic people during a visual statistical learning task and specifically examined whether differences in performance between groups occurred when sequential information was presented at a semantic level. …”
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Evidence of partner similarity for autistic traits, systemizing, and theory of mind via facial expressions by Gareth Richards, Simon Baron-Cohen, Varun Warrier, Ben Mellor, Jessica Davies, Laura Gee, John Galvin

“…Abstract It has been hypothesised that romantic partners are more similar than chance in relation to autistic traits. To test this theory, we recruited n = 105 heterosexual couples and examined within-couple correlations for autistic traits [measured using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)], empathizing [measured using the Empathy Quotient (EQ)], and systemizing [measured using the Systemizing Quotient-Revised (SQ-R)]. …”
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Autistic adults have poorer quality healthcare and worse health based on self-report data by Elizabeth Weir, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen

“…Abstract Background Recent research suggests that autistic individuals have shorter lifespans and experience worse health (greater health burden) than non-autistic individuals. …”
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Increased rates of chronic physical health conditions across all organ systems in autistic adolescents and adults by John H. Ward, Elizabeth Weir, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen

“…Abstract Background The poorer physical health of autistic adults compared to non-autistic adults has been highlighted by several epidemiological studies. …”
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Brazilian Portuguese Childhood Autism Spectrum Test: an investigation of the factor structure of autistic traits in school-aged children by Tatiane Cristina Ribeiro, Luis C. Farhat, Erasmo B. Casella, Ana Soledade Graeff-Martins, Simon Baron-Cohen, Carrie Allison, Guilherme V. Polanczyk

“… Objective: There is limited evidence about the cross-cultural validity of autistic symptoms in school-aged children in Brazil. …”
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Non-suicidal self-injury and its relation to suicide through acquired capability: investigating this causal mechanism in a mainly late-diagnosed autistic sample by Rachel L. Moseley, Nicola J. Gregory, Paula Smith, Carrie Allison, Sarah Cassidy, Simon Baron-Cohen

“…Abstract Background Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been linked with a higher risk of suicide attempts in autistic and non-autistic people. In the general population, NSSI may confer acquired capability for suicide by eroding one’s fear and avoidance of pain and death. …”
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Perceptual decision-making in autism as assessed by “spot the difference” visual cognition tasks by Nazia Jassim, Adrian M. Owen, Paula Smith, John Suckling, Rebecca P. Lawson, Simon Baron-Cohen, Owen Parsons

“…Here we examine how perceptual inference and decision-making are modulated by differences arising from neurodiversity. A large sample of autistic (n = 140) and typical (n = 147) participants completed two forced choice similarity judgement tasks online. …”
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Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism by Hannah Meyer-Lindenberg, Carolin Moessnang, Bethany Oakley, Jumana Ahmad, Luke Mason, Emily J. H. Jones, Hannah L. Hayward, Jennifer Cooke, Daisy Crawley, Rosemary Holt, Julian Tillmann, Tony Charman, Simon Baron-Cohen, Tobias Banaschewski, Christian Beckmann, Heike Tost, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Jan K. Buitelaar, Declan G. Murphy, Michael J. Brammer, Eva Loth

“…However, cluster analyses showed that these were driven by a low-performing autistic subgroup (~ 30% of autistic individuals who performed below 2SDs of the neurotypical mean on at least one test), while a larger subgroup (~ 70%) performed within 1SD on at least 2 tests. …”
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The effect of autism on information sampling during decision-making: An eye-tracking study by George D. Farmer, Paula Smith, Simon Baron-Cohen, William J. Skylark

“…We found that, as the number of attributes defining each option increased, autistic decision-makers were speedier, examined less of the available information, and spent a greater proportion of their time examining the option they eventually chose. …”
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The effect of autism on information sampling during decision-making: An eye-tracking study by George D. Farmer, Paula Smith, Simon Baron-Cohen, William J. Skylark

“…We found that, as the number of attributes defining each option increased, autistic decision-makers were speedier, examined less of the available information, and spent a greater proportion of their time examining the option they eventually chose. …”
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Linking functional and structural brain organisation with behaviour in autism: a multimodal EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) study by Lennart M. Oblong, Alberto Llera, Ting Mei, Koen Haak, Christina Isakoglou, Dorothea L. Floris, Sarah Durston, Carolin Moessnang, Tobias Banaschewski, Simon Baron-Cohen, Eva Loth, Flavio Dell’Acqua, Tony Charman, Declan G. M. Murphy, Christine Ecker, Jan K. Buitelaar, Christian F. Beckmann, The EU-AIMS LEAP Group, Natalie J. Forde

“…We utilised multimodal MRI (T1-, diffusion-weighted and resting state functional), behavioural and clinical data from the EU AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) from autistic (n = 206) and non-autistic (n = 196) participants. …”
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Sex and STEM Occupation Predict Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) Scores in Half a Million People. by Emily Ruzich, Carrie Allison, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Paula Smith, Henry Musto, Howard Ring, Simon Baron-Cohen

“…These results support previous findings relating to sex and STEM careers in the largest set of individuals for which AQ scores have been reported and suggest the AQ is a useful self-report measure of autistic traits.…”
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The genetics of autism and steroid-related traits in prenatal and postnatal life by Alex Tsompanidis, Varun Warrier, Simon Baron-Cohen

“…Steroid hormones play a mediating role in this, as indicated by studies of both prenatal biology and postnatal medical conditions in autistic men and women. It is currently unclear if the genetics of steroid regulation or production interact with the genetic liability for autism.MethodsTo address this, two studies were conducted using publicly available datasets, which focused respectively on rare genetic variants linked to autism and neurodevelopmental conditions (study 1) and common genetic variants (study 2) for autism. …”
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Fine-grained topographic organization within somatosensory cortex during resting-state and emotional face-matching task and its association with ASD traits by Christina Isakoglou, Koen V. Haak, Thomas Wolfers, Dorothea L. Floris, Alberto Llera, Marianne Oldehinkel, Natalie J. Forde, Bethany F. M. Oakley, Julian Tillmann, Rosemary J. Holt, Carolin Moessnang, Eva Loth, Thomas Bourgeron, Simon Baron-Cohen, Tony Charman, Tobias Banaschewski, Declan G. M. Murphy, Jan K. Buitelaar, Andre F. Marquand, Christian F. Beckmann

“…We applied a data-driven approach to map the fine-grained variations in functional connectivity of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) to the rest of the brain in 240 autistic and 164 neurotypical individuals from the EU-AIMS LEAP dataset, aged between 7 and 30. …”
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