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The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion

Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.

Simon Baron-Cohen
Books & Arts08 May 2018
Nature

Volume: 557, P: 305-306
Battle of the sexes may set the brain

A tug-of-war between the mother's and father's genes in the developing brain could explain a spectrum of mental disorders from autism to schizophrenia, suggest Christopher Badcock and Bernard Crespi.

Christopher Badcock
Bernard Crespi
Comments & Opinion27 Aug 2008
Nature

Volume: 454, P: 1054-1055
Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis

A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they may represent aetiologically different conditions.

Xinhe Zhang
Jakob Grove
Varun Warrier
ResearchOpen Access01 Oct 2025
Nature

Volume: 646, P: 1146-1155
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry

Using computational modelling and neurochemical analysis, this study shows how motor cortex excitatory signals guide belief updating and adaptive learning in uncertain environments.

Nazia Jassim
Peter Thestrup Waade
Rebecca P. Lawson
ResearchOpen Access04 Nov 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-14
Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development

Yumnah T. Khan
Alex Tsompanidis
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access15 Jan 2026
Scientific Reports

Volume: 16, P: 1-14
The effect of autistic traits on disembedding and mental rotation in neurotypical women and men

Massimiliano Conson
Vincenzo Paolo Senese
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access17 Mar 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-9
Evidence of partner similarity for autistic traits, systemizing, and theory of mind via facial expressions

Gareth Richards
Simon Baron-Cohen
John Galvin
ResearchOpen Access19 May 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-15
A multimodal neural signature of face processing in autism within the fusiform gyrus

The authors leveraged a large multimodal sample and combined normative modeling and linked independent component analysis to study a cross-modal signature of face processing within the fusiform gyrus in autism.

Dorothea L. Floris
Alberto Llera
Nicolas Langer
ResearchOpen Access02 Jan 2025
Nature Mental Health

Volume: 3, P: 31-45
Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism

Comprehensive factor analysis of core diagnostic features provides insights into the complex genetic architecture underlying phenotypic heterogeneity in autism.

Varun Warrier
Xinhe Zhang
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access02 Jun 2022
Nature Genetics

Volume: 54, P: 1293-1304
Sensory perception in autism

Individuals with autism show differences in both social cognition and basic sensory processing. In this Review, Robertson and Baron-Cohen discuss human and animal studies of sensory processing in autism and present possible explanations of how they relate to changes in neural processing and cognition.

Caroline E. Robertson
Simon Baron-Cohen
Reviews29 Sept 2017
Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volume: 18, P: 671-684
Phenotypic effects of genetic variants associated with autism

Analyses of data from more than 200,000 individuals identify phenotypic features associated to carrying variants in autism-associated genes, in individuals with and without a diagnosis of autism.

Thomas Rolland
Freddy Cliquet
Thomas Bourgeron
ResearchOpen Access26 Jun 2023
Nature Medicine

Volume: 29, P: 1671-1680
Atypical sensory sensitivity as a shared feature between synaesthesia and autism

Jamie Ward
Claire Hoadley
Julia Simner
ResearchOpen Access07 Mar 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-9
Feeling our way

Simon Baron-Cohen
Books & Arts29 Mar 2001
Nature

Volume: 410, P: 520
Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

It is unclear if rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses are elevated in transgender and gender-diverse individuals compared to cisgender individuals. Here, the authors use data from five different large-scale datasets to identify elevated rates of autism diagnoses, diagnoses of other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions, and elevated traits related to autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals, compared to cisgender individuals.

Varun Warrier
David M. Greenberg
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access07 Aug 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-12
Genetic insights into human cortical organization and development through genome-wide analyses of 2,347 neuroimaging phenotypes

Genome-wide association analyses of magnetic resonance imaging data describe the genetic architecture of 13 cortical phenotypes at both global and regional levels, implicating neurodevelopmental and constrained genes.

Varun Warrier
Eva-Maria Stauffer
Richard A. I. Bethlehem
Research17 Aug 2023
Nature Genetics

Volume: 55, P: 1483-1493
Perceptual decision-making in autism as assessed by “spot the difference” visual cognition tasks

Nazia Jassim
Adrian M. Owen
Owen Parsons
ResearchOpen Access14 Sept 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-7
Living Googles?

Simon Baron-Cohen
Books & Arts06 Aug 2008
Nature

Volume: 454, P: 695-696
Identifying rare genetic variants in 21 highly multiplex autism families: the role of diagnosis and autistic traits

Ravi Prabhakar More
Varun Warrier
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access26 Jan 2023
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 28, P: 2148-2157
Unsupervised data-driven stratification of mentalizing heterogeneity in autism

Michael V. Lombardo
Meng-Chuan Lai
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access18 Oct 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-15
Profiling brain morphology for autism spectrum disorder with two cross-culture large-scale consortia

Using the lifespan brain chart and two large-scale cross-cultural consortia (ABIDE and CABIC), we disentangle the heterogeneity of brain morphology in ASD into two structural impairment pathways that could disrupt sensory to association functions.

Xue-Ru Fan
Ye He
Xi-Nian Zuo
ResearchOpen Access05 Aug 2025
Communications Biology

Volume: 8, P: 1-16
Identification and validation of biomarkers for autism spectrum disorders

Eva Loth
Will Spooren
Declan G. M. Murphy
Correspondence31 Dec 2015
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volume: 15, P: 70
Differently wired

Simon Baron-Cohen
Books & Arts01 Jan 2006
Nature Neuroscience

Volume: 9, P: 5
Peering into a child's priorities

Simon Baron-Cohen
Books & Arts22 Apr 1999
Nature

Volume: 398, P: 675-677
I am loved, therefore I think

Simon Baron-Cohen
Books & Arts25 Apr 2002
Nature

Volume: 416, P: 791-792
Thumbs up for signal work

Simon Baron-Cohen
Books & Arts02 Apr 1998
Nature

Volume: 392, P: 459-460
Defining key concepts for mental state attribution

The terminology used in discussions on mental state attribution is extensive and lacks consistency. In the current paper, experts from various disciplines collaborate to introduce a shared set of concepts and make recommendations regarding future use.

François Quesque
Ian Apperly
Marcel Brass
Comments & OpinionOpen Access11 Apr 2024
Communications Psychology

Volume: 2, P: 1-5
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and maternal testosterone-to-estradiol ratio measured in early pregnancy

Gareth Richards
Ezra Aydin
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access09 Aug 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-11
Foetal oestrogens and autism

Simon Baron-Cohen
Alexandros Tsompanidis
Alexa Pohl
ResearchOpen Access29 Jul 2019
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 25, P: 2970-2978
Social and non-social autism symptoms and trait domains are genetically dissociable

Varun Warrier et al. report a genome-wide association study of systemising, a non-social trait associated with autism. They find 3 loci associated with systemising and show that this trait has no significant genetic correlations to social phenotypic measures, demonstrating that the social and non-social aspects of autism are genetically distinct.

Varun Warrier
Roberto Toro
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access03 Sept 2019
Communications Biology

Volume: 2, P: 1-13
Large-scale analyses of the relationship between sex, age and intelligence quotient heterogeneity and cortical morphometry in autism spectrum disorder

Saashi A. Bedford
Min Tae M. Park
M. Mallar Chakravarty
Research26 Apr 2019
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 25, P: 614-628
Sex-specific impact of prenatal androgens on social brain default mode subsystems

Michael V. Lombardo
Bonnie Auyeung
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access13 Aug 2018
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 25, P: 2175-2188
Polygenic scores for autism are associated with reduced neurite density in adults and children from the general population

Yuanjun Gu
Eva Maria-Stauffer
Varun Warrier
ResearchOpen Access24 Feb 2025
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 30, P: 3393-3403
Genetic contribution to ‘theory of mind’ in adolescence

Varun Warrier
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access22 Feb 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-9
Genome-wide analyses of self-reported empathy: correlations with autism, schizophrenia, and anorexia nervosa

Varun Warrier
Roberto Toro
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access12 Mar 2018
Translational Psychiatry

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Greater cortical thickness in individuals with ASD

Saashi A. Bedford
Min Tae M. Park
M. Mallar Chakravarty
Research26 Feb 2020
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 25, P: 507-508
Fine-grained topographic organization within somatosensory cortex during resting-state and emotional face-matching task and its association with ASD traits

Christina Isakoglou
Koen V. Haak
Christian F. Beckmann
ResearchOpen Access27 Jul 2023
Translational Psychiatry

Volume: 13, P: 1-10
Cross-sectional and longitudinal neuroanatomical profiles of distinct clinical (adaptive) outcomes in autism

Charlotte M. Pretzsch
Dorothea L. Floris
Christine Ecker
ResearchOpen Access29 Mar 2023
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 28, P: 2158-2169
Diagnostic model development for schizophrenia based on peripheral blood mononuclear cell subtype-specific expression of metabolic markers

Jihan K. Zaki
Santiago G. Lago
Jakub Tomasik
ResearchOpen Access30 Oct 2022
Translational Psychiatry

Volume: 12, P: 1-10
Imbalanced social-communicative and restricted repetitive behavior subtypes of autism spectrum disorder exhibit different neural circuitry

Natasha Bertelsen et al. develop a computational model to categorize patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) into distinct subgroups, based on social-communicative or restricted repetitive behaviors. By integrating publicly available neuroimaging and genetic data, they report neural and molecular signatures in two of these subgroups, altogether highlighting subtle differences in neural circuitry and genomic networks that could underlie phenotypic differences among ASD patients.

Natasha Bertelsen
Isotta Landi
Michael V. Lombardo
ResearchOpen Access14 May 2021
Communications Biology

Volume: 4, P: 1-13
Visual consciousness dynamics in adults with and without autism

Jan Skerswetat
Peter J. Bex
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access14 Mar 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-15
Fractionating autism based on neuroanatomical normative modeling

Mariam Zabihi
Dorothea L. Floris
Andre Marquand
ResearchOpen Access06 Nov 2020
Translational Psychiatry

Volume: 10, P: 1-10
Childhood trauma, life-time self-harm, and suicidal behaviour and ideation are associated with polygenic scores for autism

Varun Warrier
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access29 Oct 2019
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 26, P: 1670-1684
Polycystic ovary syndrome and autism: A test of the prenatal sex steroid theory

Adriana Cherskov
Alexa Pohl
Simon Baron-Cohen
ResearchOpen Access01 Aug 2018
Translational Psychiatry

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Exploring the neuropsychiatric spectrum using high-content functional analysis of single-cell signaling networks

Santiago G. Lago
Jakub Tomasik
Sabine Bahn
Research23 Jul 2018
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 25, P: 2355-2372
Sex differences in frontal lobe connectivity in adults with autism spectrum conditions

E A Zeestraten
M C Gudbrandsen
M C Craig
ResearchOpen Access11 Apr 2017
Translational Psychiatry

Volume: 7, P: e1090
Synaptic and transcriptionally downregulated genes are associated with cortical thickness differences in autism

Rafael Romero-Garcia
Varun Warrier
Richard A. I. Bethlehem
ResearchOpen Access26 Feb 2018
Molecular Psychiatry

Volume: 24, P: 1053-1064
Sex differences in social brain neural responses in autism: temporal profiles of configural face-processing within data-driven time windows

Teresa Del Bianco
Meng-Chuan Lai
Thomas Bourgeron
ResearchOpen Access18 Jun 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-15
Modulation of EEG theta by naturalistic social content is not altered in infants with family history of autism

Rianne Haartsen
Tony Charman
Agnes Volein
ResearchOpen Access01 Dec 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-14
The genetic contribution to non-syndromic human obesity

Recent genome-wide studies have identified many common variants that are associated with non-syndromic obesity, providing new opportunities to explore its biological basis. Understanding the roles of epigenetics and of rare and copy number variants are important goals for the future.

Andrew J. Walley
Julian E. Asher
Philippe Froguel
Reviews01 Jul 2009
Nature Reviews Genetics

Volume: 10, P: 431-442
A longitudinal resource for population neuroscience of school-age children and adolescents in China

Xue-Ru Fan
Yin-Shan Wang
Xi-Nian Zuo
ResearchOpen Access21 Aug 2023
Scientific Data

Volume: 10, P: 1-24

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