Neurodivergency

Warum bei ADHS Handeln Besser als Nicht-Handeln ist Der "Inaction Effect", zu Deutsch etwa "Untätigkeits-Effekt", ist ein psychologisches Phänomen, das von Marcel…

How music can improve ADHD symptoms.

Autismus-Kurztest zur Messung von Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen, die im Zusammenhang mit Autismus bei Einzelpersonen stehen.

Wir bieten Diagnostik an für Menschen, die sich im Autismus- Spektrum verorten.

@actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe The burnout experience, before I knew I was Autistic and expected myself to be able to function like a neurotypical: Why the hell am I so tired all the time?! I get 8 solid hours of sleep! Maybe I'm eating too much sugar. Maybe I'm not eating enough. Maybe I'm eating too many processed foods. Maybe I'm not eating enough protein. Maybe I'm not drinking enough water. Maybe I'm not getting enough physical activity. Maybe I'm drinking too much caffeine. Maybe I've got mono. Maybe my body is fighting off a mild infection. Thoughts that literally never crossed my mind: Maybe I've had too many demands on my time and energy. Maybe my senses have been overloaded. Maybe I'm not giving my brain enough rest (which is different than sleep) Maybe I need to do LESS. Maybe I need a lot more alone time. It's so hard to understand why we feel a certain way when we're trying to understand ourselves as a "normal" person. #ActuallyAutistic

Instead of trying to reform the diagnostic process, we should work to move past it.

@actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe #actuallyautistic #substack is problematic but #DevonPrice, author of the book #UnmaskingAutism has a new article up today about #selfidentification #selfrealization #selfdiagnosis #selfdx Self-Identification is the Future of Autism Assessment Substack: https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/self-identification-is-the-future Medium: https://medium.com/@devonprice/self-identification-is-the-future-of-autism-assessment-1e73528e8b10?sk=v2%2F1e5b26bb-63bd-4c99-8e0f-a25e527f49cb

Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Cannabis zur Behandlung von neurodegenerativen Krankheiten und neuronalen Entwicklungsstörungen" am 08.September 2023 in Bozen. Prof. Dr. Kirsten Müller Vahl - Ärztin für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, geschäftsführende Oberärztin der Klinik für Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie an der med. Hochschule Hannover (D) Veranstaltung organisiert vom Cannabis Social Club Bozen, realisiert mit der Unterstützung der Abteilung Gesundheit der Autonomen Provinz Bozen - Südtirol

Picture a reality where nothing is pictured. Psychology reveals what life looks like for someone with aphantasia.

Evidence of increased PTSD symptoms in autistics exposed to applied behavior analysis - Author: Henny Kupferstein

The estimated prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in individuals over 8 years is currently one in 44, with applied behavioural analysis being the most commonly used state-funded form of treatment for autism in the USA.1 Part of its widespread availability is the policy of the American Medical Association (AMA), which supported applied behavioural analysis as the first choice evidence-based treatment for autism.1 However, at the AMA House of Delegates annual meeting in June, 2023, Resolution 706 entitled, “Revision of H-185.921, removal of AMA support for applied behavior analysis”,1 put forward two changes.

Study that involved transplanting people’s microbes into mice may show way to possible therapies, say scientists

#Autistics and #ADHD people: What are your most liked autistic-centered (or ADHD-centered) websites (created and edited by autistics and/or ADHDers) that have informative, well-sourced and thoughtful articles about autism, ADHD, and neurodiversity? @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe #actuallyautistic #adhd @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe

When used for a prolonged time, pharmacologic treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease—specifically hypertension and arterial disease—in a case-control study.

Social symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are typically viewed as consequences of an impaired Theory of Mind, i.e. the ability to understand others’ covert mental states. Here, we test the assumption that such “mind blindness” may be due to the inability to exploit contextual knowledge about, e.g., the stakes of social interactions, to make sense of otherwise ambiguous cues (e.g., idiosyncratic responses to social competition). In this view, social cognition in ASD may simply reduce to non-social cognition, i.e. cognition that is not informed by the social context. We compared 24 adult participants with ASD to 24 neurotypic participants in a repeated dyadic competitive game against artificial agents with calibrated mentalizing sophistication. Critically, participants were framed to believe that they were competing against humans (social framing) or not (non-social framing), hence the “reverse Turing test”. In contrast to control participants, the strategy of people with ASD is insensitive to the game’s framing, i.e. they do not constrain their understanding of others’ behaviour with the contextual knowledge about the game (cf. competitive social framing). They also outperform controls when playing against simple agents, but are outperformed by them against recursive algorithms framed as human opponents. Moreover, computational analyses of trial-by-trial choice sequences in the game show that individuals with ASD rely on a distinctive cognitive strategy with subnormal flexibility and mentalizing sophistication. These computational phenotypes yield 79% diagnosis classification accuracy and explain 62% of the severity of social symptoms in people with ASD.

Dear ChatGPT: Imagine you’re an Alien scientist. Visiting from another planet to study human Autism. You see a startling pattern. Human…

This is a raw, unfiltered truth. Many of us who are autistic… live it. But we don’t talk about it.. much. At least not out loud…

Effective information transfer requires social communication skills. As autism is clinically defined by social communication deficits, it may be expected that i...

The story that Hans Asperger saved autistic children from the Nazis is exposed as a myth in Edith Sheffer’s new biography

The diagnostic terms for autism were overhauled 10 years ago. Experts, campaigners and autistic people reflect on these changes