Sentences with phrase «high autistic traits»

While they found that people with high autistic traits produced fewer responses when generating alternative solutions to a problem - known as «divergent thinking» - the responses they did produce were more original and creative.

Co-author of the study Dr Martin Doherty, from UEA's School of Psychology, said: «People with high autistic traits could be said to have less quantity but greater quality of creative ideas.

Not exact matches

Higher levels of autistic traits were also associated with increased vulnerability to experiencing feelings of depression, feeling they are a burden on others, and do not belong in the world, which may put them at more risk of attempting suicide.

The results suggested that those participants who exhibited higher levels of autistic traits were more at risk of suicidal behaviour during their lifetime.

New research has found that people with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to produce unusually creative ideas.

People who generated four or more unusual responses in the task were found to have higher levels of autistic traits.

This report expands the phenotype of older patients with BRPS; common emerging features include severe intellectual disability (11/12), poor / absent speech (12/12), autistic traits (9/12), distinct face (arched eyebrows, prominent forehead, high - arched palate, hypertelorism and downslanting palpebral fissures), (9/12), hypotonia (11/12) and significant feeding difficulties (9/12) when young.

But I can't help sharing that you also almost perfectly describe my (large and growing) chronic patient community as well Dr. Brogan, which includes persons of all types usually with hypermobility (often diagnosed as fibromyalgia, and occasionally but rarely with Hypermobile Ehlers - Danlos Syndrome), depression, anxiety, mild autistic traits (or related to people on the spectrum), driven, Type A (for adrenergic, smile), perfectionistic, high achieving, driven, artistic, and creative who eventually succumb to secondary aotuimmune disease and all manner of issues from chronic inflammation.

This 40 - item parent questionnaire uses a «yes» or «no» response format to validate autistic traits, and is summed to obtain a total score, with higher scores indicating greater ASD severity (Rutter et al. 2003).