Children with reading difficulties often face cooccurring math difficulties. Research suggests added difficulties with working memory and visual processing may underlie this cooccurrence, as measured behaviourally and by brain activations: doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

Intriguing article on recent research links clinical and genetic heterogeneity in ADHD. Notably, polygenic scores predicted ADHD and ASD traits in individuals with both diagnoses, supporting the biological validity of co-diagnoses and revisions to DSM-5: nature.com/articles/s4158…

We're recruiting for a fully-funded PhD studentship CENTRE-UB🎓Developing digital tools to improve screening for autism: Identifying diagnostic markers based on bodily movements🏃🏽Supervised by Jennifer Cook, Dr Hannah Heath, & I - deadline 16th May ⬇️ bit.ly/PhD_autism_scr…🧵

Are you interested in learning about the #neurobiology of #autism ? Be sure to join us for our last WHSS of the academic year! Meng-Chuan Lai 賴孟泉 will speak on “Considering sex- and gender-related mechanisms in #autism #neuroscience .” 🧬

Register here ➡️ bit.ly/3HHxGxL

I've done a shockingly bad job of promoting this, but! I'm going to be at College of Psychiatrists of Ireland's spring conference next Thursday, talking a bit about neurodiversity, the double empathy problem, and how non-autistic people can be more autistic in their communication. Come say hi!

Really pleased to share our first publication from our AASP study: “Adapting Safety Plans for Autistic Adults with Involvement from the Autism Community”. Free to access here: liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

New study highlights greater emotion recognition difficulties in autistic adults with cooccurring intellectual disability (ID) than those with ID alone. However, these difficulties do not explain social functioning variability as much as diagnosis alone: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

The second paper from the brilliant team of Bobby Jertberg, Sander Begeer Dr. Hilde M. Geurts ([email protected]) & Erik van den Burg showing that age - and not #autism - is a significant predictor of multisensory integration of speech stimuli in a large sample (N=869) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

12 mth postdoc available to work with me and Sheri Odoula UEA on a project identifying mental health research priorities with our local Norfolk and Suffolk communities vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/870/…

🛎️Reminder about the next week's Autism ResearCH (ARCH) Seminar. Join us on Wednesday 17th of April at 2pm!

Study found 66% of children with dyslexia exhibited mathematical difficulties, but the nature of these difficulties varied -- using the newly developed UCSF Mathematical Cognition Battery (MCB) to identify specific difficulties across mathematical domains: doi.org/10.1038/s41539…

ADHD symptoms can be impacted by the menstrual cycle. This study, with women who experience fluctuations in symptoms during their cycle, found that group sessions addressing this could be an additional treatment: doi.org/10.3390/jcm130…

VIP NEW STUDY:

✔️1 in 4 autistic patients received what they believed was a psychiatric misdiagnosis prior to being diagnosed.
✔️The most common misdiagnosis was personality disorders.
✔️Previous misdiagnosis was more common in women.

= #AutismNotPD

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Researchers are slowly unravelling the differences between the brains of people with and without dyslexia. This review summarises the research conducted using Diffusion Tensor Imaging exploring the differences in brain structure in people with dyslexia: doi.org/10.3390/brains…

In this interesting podcast, Dr Lucy Livingston provides insight into the comorbidity of #Depression in Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder ( #ADHD ) and #Autism .

A fascinating listen.

Listen to the full podcast to learn more. bit.ly/3HTe5eD

#Autism Acceptance

Neurodevelopmental conditions have been linked to different immune disorders, both in the mother during pregnancy and after birth. This review summarises what we know about the connection between immune system and neurodevelopmental conditions: doi.org/10.1038/s41590…

Please help with our new research study! #Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in the UK, help us test a new online task looking at facial emotion recognition and its relationship to mood, thinking styles, and more: tinyurl.com/IUonlinetask

New paper 🚨: 1 in 4 autistic adults (1 in 3 autistic women) reported at least one psychiatric diagnosis, prior to being diagnosed with #autism , that was perceived as a misdiagnosis.
It would be great if we could avoid these long diagnostic pathways
doi.org/10.1016/j.ecli…

Taya (a student I am working with at Psychology at Soton) would like to know more about the experience of autistic adults who use earplugs for reducing auditory sensory challenges.

Thanks for sharing this poster with whoever may be interested taking part to her research project!🙏