BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Effects of maternal and paternal age on offspring autism and schizophrenia risks have been studied for over three decades, but inconsistent risks have often been found, precluding well-informed speculation on why these age-related risks might exist. METHODOLOGY To help clarify this situation we analysed a massive single population sample from Denmark including the fu...

This is a reprint of an article printed in the February – April issue (2005) of Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive / Current Psychology of Cognition, volume 23 (1 – 2), pp 3 – 33. Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder 2 Abstract Recent evidence has indicated that some children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) show reduced ability to detect visual motion. The data suggest that this...