Sentences with phrase «of autistic traits»

Item 1 of the SCQ is a language screening question and is not included in calculating an overall total of autistic traits.

Factor analyses of autistic traits in clinical ASD and community samples, using a variety of ASD measurement tools, generally indicate that multiple factors account for the observed covariance structure of ASD symptoms and traits (Happé and Ronald 2008; Mandy and Skuse 2008).

In a study published today by Royal Society Open Science, the international research team revealed that people who show evidence of autistic traits are more likely to suppress coarse (as opposed to fine) visual information when they move their eyes rapidly from one part of the world to another than those without autistic traits.

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

However, this is the first study to suggest those who have not been diagnosed with autism but had certain traits typical of autistic people were also more at risk of attempting suicide.

The study used an age - and IQ - matched sample of school - aged youth diagnosed with ASD to assess sex differences according to the standard clinical tests including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI - R), as well as parent reported autistic traits and adaptive skills.

The academics used standard tests and a psychological model to investigate associations between autistic traits, depression, feelings of not belonging and of being a burden, and suicidal behaviour.

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.

Dr Catherine Best, Health Researcher at the University of Stirling, said: «This is the first study to find a link between autistic traits and the creative thinking processes.

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.

They're searching for additional information about the extent and intensity of individual autistic traits that could be tied to the traits» genetic underpinnings.

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.

Having autism means having every autistic trait (lack of empathy, obsessive behavior, no self - awareness, and extreme competitiveness to name a few) Ginny was clearly not a genius nor did she have a prodigious memory.

Given the time and cost of performing in - depth interviews and observational diagnostic assessments of ASD, such as the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI - R) and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS)(Lord et al. 1989, 1994), many studies have relied on questionnaires to measure autistic traits.

Wallace, G.L., Shaw, P., Lee, N.R., Clasen, L.S., Raznahan, A., et al. (2012) Distinct cortical correlates of autistic versus antisocial traits in a longitudinal sample of typically developing youth.

In this study, we investigated the autistic traits (even including moderate - AQ participants) of typically developing adolescents, measured with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and the spectral property of their behavioral and physiological responses during emotion - discrimination tasks.