Within research into neurodevelopmental disorders, little is known about the mechanisms
underpinning changes in symptom severity across development. When the behavioural …

Recent discoveries about the pathogenesis and symptom structure of autism spectrum
disorders (ASDs) are challenging traditional nosology and driving efforts to reconceptualise …

Background It is proposed that some individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can
'compensate'for their underlying difficulties (eg in theory of mind; ToM), thus demonstrating …

Abstract Background Hans Asperger (1906–1980) first designated a group of children with
distinct psychological characteristics as 'autistic psychopaths' in 1938, several years before …

Over the past four decades there have been significant advances in our understanding of
autism, yet services for autistic adults continue to lag far behind those for children, and …

Alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by altered emotional awareness which
has been gaining diagnostic prevalence in a range of neuropsychiatric disorders, with …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized
by pervasive difficulties since early childhood across reciprocal social communication and …

This book has two major themes: firstly, it discusses psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects
of language learning, and secondly, it looks at the contrast between universalist accounts of …

Currently there are no brief, self-administered instruments for measuring the degree to which
an adult with normal intelligence has the traits associated with the autistic spectrum. In this …

Empathy is an essential part of normal social functioning, yet there are precious few
instruments for measuring individual differences in this domain. In this article we review …