Face processing in aphantasia, via self-report & task performance www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... aphantasics have higher Prosopagnosia Index scores, with 26-41% likely to be prosopagnosic (vs 0-1% of controls) & "exhibit impairments in face memory & face perception, but not face matching"?
Blood donation in autism, ADHD, dyslexia--survey onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Neurodivergent individuals are (i) underrepresented in donor panels, (ii) likely to make fewer donations when a donor, (iii) likely to perceive blood donor selection as less fair and more discriminatory..."
"a core neural phenotype of autism that is shared across a large fraction of autistic individuals involves the reduced functional connectivity of sensorimotor areas and the increased functional connectivity of transmodal areas..."? www.nature.com/articles/s44... based on resting-state fMRI, free
"genetic medicine trials may be acceptable in Profound Autism... while untenable for more common forms of autism..."? (what forms?) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... commentary that claims 30% of autistics meet "Profound Autism" criteria, but also claims different criteria from the cited source
Daily living skills in "autistic people with average or higher cognitive ability"?--but reported FSIQ ranges down to 40 (see Fig 2) and 28% of the "autistic people" in this study "were never diagnosed with autism... across repeated assessments" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free
"the language-perception chimera model is the first to explain the occurrence, nature, idiosyncrasies, combinations, and developmental trajectories of the majority of social, language, and repetitive features observed in prototypical autism"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free
Registered: aiming to "build an age-sensitive profile of prevalence of mental health diagnoses in autistic women across time, and identify where needs may change or support may be most needed" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review
Behavior analysts require autistics (age 4) to complete an "attending protocol"--before each ABA trial, they must "place their hands under their legs"--& require autistics (age 4) to always imitate others when told ("do this" "say this") link.springer.com/article/10.1... this is ABA in 2026, free
Proportion of autistics with an ID diagnosis "decreased over a 20-year period, from 55.8% in 2001 to 6.7% in 2020"? "While the occurrence of ID in autism during this period was relatively stable, autism diagnoses increased by approximately 800%"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free
Autistics "were not better at estimating the thoughts" of other autistics? autistics and non-autistics "were equally bad" at identifying who is autistic vs non-autistic? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Contrary to our expectations, we found no evidence for a within-neurotype advantage"
Some individuals with aphantasia, an absent or reduced ability to form visual imagery, report face recognition difficulties, and studies have shown ap…
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Background We broaden the ongoing drive to diversify blood donor panels by proposing and testing a framework to explore neurodivergence and blood donation. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspect...
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Using normative modeling to measure the interindividual variability of atypical brain functional connectivity in autism, the authors identify heterogeneity at the level of specific connections alongsi...
Many autistic individuals with average or higher cognitive abilities (also referred to as intelligence quotient; IQ) exhibit weaker than expected daily living skills (DLS). However, existing evidence...
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One of the most influential attempts to characterize and explain the perceptual atypicalities of autism, as well as their relationship to the linguistic and soc...
Imitation deficits in young autistic children are well-documented. Strengthening generalized imitation in this population is a primary goal of early intervention. In this study, an intervention design...
The registered prevalence of autism has increased substantially over the past two decades, potentially impacting the co-occurrence of diagnosed intell…
