People radically differ in how they cope with uncertainty. Clinical researchers describe a
dispositional characteristic known as “intolerance of uncertainty”, a tendency to find …

Autism Spectrum Conditions are typified by a divergence in cognitive style from that of the
non-autistic population. Cognitive differences in autism may underlie significant strengths …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its policy responses have had a detrimental effect on millions
of people's mental health. Here, we investigate its impact on autistic people and their …

The COVID-19 pandemic, the infection caused by the novel coronavirus detected in
December 2019 by World Health Organization (WHO), has detrimentally impacted human …

Autistic children and adolescents and their parents are likely to have been disproportionally
affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been little focus on how the mental …

Background Social camouflaging (hereafter camouflaging) in autism includes factors such
as masking and compensating for one's neurodevelopmental differences, and to assimilate …

Bayesian theories of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) suggest that atypical predictive
mechanisms could underlie the autistic symptomatology, but little is known about their …

Background It is well-documented that children with Developmental Language Disorder
(DLD) have a higher likelihood of experiencing anxiety, as well as other socio-emotional …

While diagnostic assessments for autism routinely screen for reduced frequency of gestures,
evidence supporting reduced gesture production in autism is inconsistent. This systematic …

Cognitive flexibility is a fundamental process that underlies adaptive behaviour in response
to environmental change. Studies examining the profile of cognitive flexibility in autism …