On DSM-5, Asperger syndrome and 'level of support'

It wasn't so much the findings reported by Garrido and colleagues [1] that took my attention, but rather their use of a particular sent...

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The Sensory Perception Quotient (SPQ) and autism

Today I'd like to bring to your attention the paper by Teresa Tavassoli and colleagues [1] (open-access) who talked about the developme...

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Pain predicting sleep problems in autism

Not so long ago I talked about the paper from Smith and colleagues  [1] on autism and obstacles to medical [comorbidity] diagnosis and treat...

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The potential impact of DSM-V on autism numbers

I don't really want to get too bogged down with the various discussions which have passed to-and-fro when it came to the expected impact...

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A bottom-up approach to autism research?

If anything else, the recent discussions on the principles of RDoC - Research Domain Criteria ( see here ) - being applied to psychiatry hav...

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Synaesthesia prevalent in autism?

The BBC headline ' Study links synaesthesia to autism ' recently caught my eye (and nose!) discussing the paper by Baron-Cohen and c...

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Put it in the (autism science) replicator

Replication is one of the most important processes in those things we call science and the scientific method . Outside of conjuring up image...

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