Subgroups in autism (without intellectual disability)

" Children with ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  without ID  [ intellectual disability ]  could be differentiated into Moderate and Sev...

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Gender dysphoria and autistic traits?

" Gender dysphoria is a condition where a person experiences discomfort or distress because there is a mismatch between their biologica...

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ADHD in the prison population: a second micropost

" The results indicate that 41 % of the prisoners met the diagnostic criteria for ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ]  i...

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Sex, STEM careers and the 'big data' of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ)

I'm a fan of ' big data ' on this blog ( see here ) and the particular idea that large participant numbers can offer up some rea...

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Views on autism from an "unaffected sibling"

It was a bit of a breath of fresh air to read the paper by Lauren Singer [1] (open-access) published in the journal Molecular Autism  recen...

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Gender differences in chronic fatigue syndrome

The title of this post matches the title of the paper published by Monica Faro and colleagues [1] ( open-access here ) and some potentially...

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Medical comorbidity and adult autism (again)

Regular readers are probably tired of reading blog titles like the one for today on this site. It's not as if the idea that a diagnosis ...

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