Basically what this means is that individuals
with autistic traits are unable to properly cycle certain amino acids throughout the nervous system.
«People
with autistic traits may approach creativity problems in a different way,» said Dr Doherty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New research has found that people
with high levels of
autistic traits are more likely to produce unusually creative ideas.
A study carried out by the Laboratoire Neurobiologie des Interactions Cellulaires et Neurophysiopathologie (CNRS / Aix - Marseille Université), in collaboration
with clinicians from Marseilles Public Hospitals (AP - HM) and scientists from the Salk Institute in San Diego (US), has revealed a new gene that plays a crucial role during early development in humans and whose under - expression may induce certain
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.
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.
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).