Are ‘neurotypical controls’ really neurotypical? Individual differences in mental health traits in ‘control’ populations

Autistic - like Personality Traits in Neurotypical Adults : Examining Possible Differences in the Ease , Speed and

The social psychological concept of self-other overlap describes how identities and cognitive representations of people tend to merge as they become closer to one another. Because greater self-other overlap tends to be associated with such positive characteristics as closeness and intimacy, it has generally been considered a desirable trait in relationships. However, these positive characterist...

Differences in Estimation and Mathematical Problem Solving Between Autistic Children and Neurotypical Children

Neurophysiological differences between patients clinically at high risk for schizophrenia and neurotypical controls – first steps in development of a biomarker

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a severe, disabling and prevalent mental disorder without cure and with a variable, incomplete pharmacotherapeutic response. Prior to onset in adolescence or young adulthood a prodromal period of abnormal symptoms lasting weeks to years has been identified and operationalized as clinically high risk (CHR) for schizophrenia. However, only a minority of subjects prospe...

The Examination of White Matter Microstructure, Autism Traits, and Social Cognitive Abilities in Neurotypical Adults

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among mentalizing abilities, self-reported autism traits, and two white matter tracts, uncinate fasciculus (UF) and inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), in neurotypical adults. UF and ILF were hypothesized to connect brain regions implicated in a neuroanatomical model of mentalizing. Data were available for 24 neurotypical adults (me...

Relationship between cingulo-insular functional connectivity and autistic traits in neurotypical adults.

OBJECTIVE The Social Responsiveness Scale-Adult Version (SRS-A) measures autistic traits that are continuously distributed in the general population. Based on increased recognition of the dimensional nature of autistic traits, the authors examined the neural correlates of these traits in neurotypical individuals using the SRS-A and established a novel approach to assessing the neural basis of a...