Diagnosed autism is more common in an IT-rich region PDF Print E-mail
A new study from Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre has for the first time found that autism diagnoses are more common in an IT-rich region.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) funded study, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, has important implications for service provision in different regions and for the 'hyper-systemizing' theory of autism.

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New genetic findings in Asperger Syndrome PDF Print E-mail
Genetic studies of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have mostly focused on the ‘‘low functioning’’ severe clinical subgroup, treating it as a rare disorder. However, ASC is now thought to be relatively common (~1%), and representing one end of a quasi-normal distribution of autistic traits in the general population. Here we report a study of common genetic variation in candidate genes...
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Atypical brain activity in siblings of people with autism PDF Print E-mail
Background: In addition to their more clinically evident abnormalities of social cognition, people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) manifest perturbations of attention and sensory perception which may offer insights into the underlying neural abnormalities. Similar autistic traits in ASC relatives without a diagnosis suggest a continuity between clinically affected and unaffected family...
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Atypical neural self-representation in autism PDF Print E-mail
The 'self' is a complex multidimensional construct deeply embedded and in many ways defined by our relations with the social world. Individuals with autism are impaired in both self-referential and other-referential social cognitive processing. Atypical neural representation of the self may be a key to understanding the nature of such impairments.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we...
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