From adolescence onwards,he had few friends and tended to isolate himself. At 21 years old, he began drinking alcohol due to the stress of interpersonal communication. At 29 years old, he was admitted with alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Post-discharge, no relapse has occurred. ASD was confirmed ...
There is growing recognition that autistic females present with more diverse gender and sexual identities than their non-autistic counterparts. Likewise, autistic females are also at an increased risk of adverse sexual experiences. As higher rates of sex
Experts aren’t totally sure what’s behind this massive increase, but they suspect that awareness about ASD and education about the signs and symptoms mean that people who may have gone undiagnosed in the past are getting the recognition and support that they deserve. Per the Autism Society of...
2]. Individuals scoring high on measures of alexithymia exhibit difficulties recognizing and labeling their internal emotional states, discriminating between different emotions of the same affective valence, and describing and communicating their emotional states to others...
Alterations in dopamine signalling have been implied in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and these could be associated with the risk of developing a psychotic disorder in ASD adults. Negative social experiences and feelings of social defeat might result in an increase in dopamine functioning. However...
The Turning Tides of Intoxication: Young People's Drinking in Britain in the 2000s. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of recent changes in young people's consumption of alcohol in Britain before then charting em... J Aldridge,F Measham - 《Health Education》 被...
Participants were asked to refrain from using cannabis and/or other illicit substances in the month before scanning, and from drinking alcohol on the day before testing. Data from all individuals that screened positive for illicit substances in the urine drug screening were excluded. As a result,...
body parts, or animals, that he averted his eyes from theirs, that he pawed their examination table when he didn’t flap his arms. Autism, the doctors said, constituted a lifelong condition. Medical science didn’t understand its causes or cures, and scarcely comprehended the limits of its ...
The “drinking with others” question is unclear. It sounds like it’s about alcoholic beverages, but people might avoid being around people who are drinking alcohol if they don’t drink alcoholic beverages. There are many religious, cultural, health, personal, and economic reasons not to drink...
Exploration was defined as directing the nose to the object at a distance of ≤1 cm and/or touching the object with the nose. The time spent by the mouse in exploring each object was recorded for 5 min. The arena and the objects were cleaned with alcohol after each session. Novel ...