HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Neurodivergent Healthcare

Neurodivergent Healthcare current awareness bulletin

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April 2025

Acoustic exaggeration enhances speech discrimination in young autistic children

Action execution and observation in autistic adults: a systematic review of fMRI studies

Altered category learning and reduced generalization in autistic adults

Assessing the causal association between celiac disease and autism spectrum disorder

Children's social preference for teachers versus peers in autism inclusion classrooms

Cognitive flexibility in autism: how task predictability and sex influence performances

Confirmatory factor analysis of an identity questionnaire among autistic adolescents and young adults

Elevated parkinsonism symptoms in autism during middle and older adulthood are linked with psychosocial, physical health, and mental health outcomes

Examining the relationship between parental broader autism phenotype traits, offspring autism, and parental mental health

Exploring the heterogeneity of self-injurious behaviors in autistic youth: patterns, predictors, and implications for intervention

Increased alpha power in autistic adults: relation to sensory behaviors and cortical volume

Is it still autism? The increasing broadening of the autism spectrum

Neural correlates of executive function and attention in children with ADHD: an ALE meta-analysis of task-based functional connectivity studies

Neurofeedback for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Offending and clinical characteristics of adults with autism spectrum disorder: experience at forensic psychiatry center in Türkiye between 2012 and 2022

Orienting to and away from the eyes in infants at high likelihood for autism when scanning faces

Structure and dynamics of anxiety in people with ASD and ID: a network analysis

Toward improved understanding and treatment of self-injurious behaviors in autistic individuals with profound intellectual disability

What we know and do not know about camouflaging, impression management, and mental health and wellbeing in autistic people

Who, when, where, and why: a systematic review of “late diagnosis” in autism

Sources

Autism & Developmental Language Impairments (Mar); Autism Research (Jan-Feb); JAMA Psychiatry (Feb); Psychiatry Research (Mar)

February 2025

Association between autism diagnosis rates and adolescent depression: a population-based study in Sweden

Autism spectrum disorder and anorexia nervosa: investigating the behavioural and neurocognitive overlap

Autism spectrum and gastrointestinal health: screening on the influence of environmental factors on gastrointestinal problems

Distinguishing autism spectrum disorder and social anxiety: exploring adaptive skills among university students

The effect of exercise training on sleep quality in autism spectrum condition: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Effects of creative movement, general movement, or seated play interventions on motor performance in children with autism spectrum disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial

Emotion dysregulation in autism: severity and correlates in early childhood

Fit club: outcomes from 35-minute daily exercise program for autistic adolescents

How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: a review

How do autistic people, professionals, and caregivers think about the origins and environments of autism?

Idiosyncratic pupil regulation in autistic children

Interceptive abilities in autism spectrum disorder: comparing naturalistic and virtual visuomotor tasks

Investigating the general psychopathology factor in autistic youth

Life expectancy and years of life lost for adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK: matched cohort study

Music therapy improves engagement and initiation for autistic children with mild intellectual disabilities: a randomized controlled study

Patterns of brain maturation in autism and their molecular associations

Skill-based treatment for challenging behavior in autism spectrum disorder: a scoping review of treatment characteristics and outcomes

The spectrum effect: convergence of clinical and neuropsychological characteristics in adults referred for autism assessment

A systematic review and meta-analysis of atypical visual attention towards non-social stimuli in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder

The use of formal language as a strong sign of verbal autistic children in diglossic communities: the case of Arabic

What are the experiences and support needs of families of autistic children with Extreme (or ‘Pathological’) Demand Avoidance (E/PDA) behaviours?

Sources

Autism & Developmental Language Impairments (Dec); Autism Research (Dec); Psychiatry Research (Feb); Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Jan)

December 2024

Associations between autistic and comorbid somatic problems of gastrointestinal disorders, food allergy, pain, and fatigue in adults

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnoses and prescriptions in UK primary care, 2000–2018: population-based cohort study

‘Autism is the Arena and OCD is the Lion’: autistic adults’ experiences of co-occurring obsessive-compulsive disorder and repetitive restricted behaviours and interests

Autistic psychiatrists’ experiences of recognising themselves and others as autistic: a qualitative study

Being able to be myself: understanding autonomy and autonomy-support from the perspectives of autistic adults with intellectual disabilities  

Camouflaging, not sensory processing or autistic identity, predicts eating disorder symptoms in autistic adults

Career progression for autistic people: a scoping review

Early trajectories and moderators of autistic language profiles: a longitudinal study in preschoolers

The effect of autism phenotype and diagnosis disclosure on students’ desire for social distance from autistic peers

‘It’s designed for someone who is not me’: a reflexive thematic analysis of the unmet healthcare support needs in UK autistic adults aged 65 years and over

‘It’s not always textbook social anxiety’: a survey-based study investigating the nature of social anxiety and experiences of therapy in autistic people

Literacy in nonspeaking autistic people

The meaning of autistic movements

Motivation to participate in structured physical activity for autistic youth: a systematic scoping review

Navigating surgery with ADHD and autism

Poor face recognition predicts social anxiety in autism: a short report

Quality-of-life measurement in randomised controlled trials of mental health interventions for autistic adults: a systematic review

Relationship between global warming and autism spectrum disorder from 1990 to 2019

Social media shaping autism perception and identity

A UK-wide survey of community forensic services for adults with intellectual disability and/or autism

Using music to assist language learning in autistic children with minimal verbal language: the MAP feasibility RCT

Using Q-sort method to explore autistic students’ views of the impacts of their anxiety at school

Sources

Autism (Oct-Dec); BJPsych Open (Sep-Nov); BMJ, The (Oct)

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