Mild autism is an unofficial term commonly used to refer to a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder level 1. Mildly autistic people have less noticeabletraits(that they often mask) and have low support needs. However, challenges can include social interaction, reading social cues, understanding body...
Autism 17, 571–581 (2013). Article PubMed Google Scholar Russell-Smith, S. N., Bayliss, D. M. & Maybery, M. T. Unique sets of social and mood characteristics differentiate autistic and negative schizotypy traits in a young adult non-clinical sample. Pers. Individ. Dif. 55, 542–...
Dominance analysis revealed autism traits to be the strongest predictor for reduced mentalising skills in the ASD sample, whereas alexithymia contributed significantly less. In the sample of individuals with ruled out diagnosis, autism traits were the strongest predictor, but alexithymia traits were in ...
When contemplating the alarming depression rates in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there is a need to find factors explaining heightened symptoms of depression. Beyond the impact of autism traits, markedly increased levels of alexithymia traits should be considered as a candidate for expl...
A number of characteristics associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are over-represented among patients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) as well as among relatives of these patients. Yet the co-occurrence of autistic traits in AN has not been fully explored and no previous study has directly ...
Deficits in mentalizing and attachment occur in the autism and schizophrenia spectrum, and their extended traits in the general population. Parental attachment and the broader social environment highly influence the development of mentalizing. Given the
In the general population, males also report more autistic traits than females (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001, Greenberg et al., 2018). This has raised the question whether prenatal testosterone (pT), a masculinizing factor, contributes to the development of autism (Baron-Cohen et al., 2011)....
However, to our knowledge, there has been no study of autism features in a large sample individuals with Klinefelter syndrome. The aim of our study was to investigate specific social abilities in a large sample of adult men with Klinefelter syndrome and assess whether Klinefelter syndrome may be...
This could substantially ease research efforts to increase our understanding of the biology underlying ASDs. To measure autistic traits in the general population, a number of ques- tionnaires have been developed, and of those, the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) and the Social and Communication ...
At 19 years, a diagnosis of autism was reported by 10% of EP participants versus 1.6% of controls, whereas 31% of EP participants scored above the cut-off for the broader autism phenotype in comparison with 8.5% of term-born controls. Limitations The high attrition of EP participants from ...