The distribution of autistic traits across the autism spectrum: evidence for discontinuous dimensional subpopulations underlying the autism continuum

Abstract Background A considerable amount of research has discussed whether autism and psychiatric/neurodevelopmental conditions in general are best described categorically or dimensionally. In recent years, finite mixture models have been increasingly applied to mixed populations of autistic and no...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Abu-Akel, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen, Dietmar Heinke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Molecular Autism
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13229-019-0275-3