“This study clearly demonstrates a largely consistent sex difference across countries, languages, and ages,” study co-author Carrie Allison, who is the director of applied research at the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, said in a news release. “This raises new questions for future research about the social and biological factors that may contribute to the observed on-average sex difference in cognitive empathy.” READ MORE 

A key implication of the model is that, if autism spectrum disorder represents an impairment in mentalism, or theory of mind, then psychotic spectrum disorder must represent its opposite: what Ahmad Abu-Akel (left), called hyper theory of mind.  READ MORE 

Researchers have shed new light on the relationship between autistic tendencies and psychosis proneness in neurotypical adults. The study indicates that while increased tendencies for either condition are associated with perspective-taking difficulties, unexpectedly, these difficulties are diminished in individuals with similar tendency to both autism and psychosis. READ MORE