The Neuropsychology of Male Adults With High-Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome

Autism Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 568-581

  Wilson, C Ellie ^a   Happé, Francesca ^a,j   Wheelwright, Sally J ^b,c,i   Ecker, Christine ^a,j   Lombardo, Michael V ^b,d,i   Johnston, Patrick ^a,j   Daly, Eileen M ^a,j   Murphy, Clodagh M ^a,j   Spain, Debbie ^a,i   Lai, Meng Chuan ^b,e,i   Chakrabarti, Bhismadev ^b,f,i   Sauter, Disa A ^g,h   Baron Cohen, Simon ^b,i   Murphy, Declan G M ^a,j   Bailey, Anthony J ⁱ   Bolton, Patrick F ^j   Bullmore, Edward T ⁱ   Carrington, Sarah ⁱ   Catani, Marco ^j   Craig, Michael C ^j   Deoni, Sean C L ^j   Henty, Julian ⁱ   Jezzard, Peter ⁱ   Jones, Derek K ^j   Madden, Anya ^j   Mullins, Diane ^j   Pasco, Greg ⁱ   Ruigrok, Amber N V ⁱ   Sadek, Susan A ⁱ   Stewart, Rose ⁱ   Suckling, John ⁱ   Williams, Steven C ^j   more..

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ IoP ^*  (United Kingdom)

^j Clinical Neuroscience Division   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Autistic subtypes; Autistic symptomatology; Cognitive profiles; Comorbid psychopathology; Support vector machine classification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONDON; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931416879     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1394     Document Type: Article

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