Please help with our new research study!
#Autistic
and Non-Autistic Adults in the UK, help us test a new online task looking at facial emotion recognition and its relationship to mood, thinking styles, and more:
Truly honoured and gobsmacked in equal measure! Thank you
@BPSOfficial
and thank you all my wonderful students
@SGDPCentreKCL
, colleagues, and autistic collaborators & participants who have made the research possible!
Professor Francesca Happé
@HappeLab
, an international leader on research into autism, has won the BPS Presidents’ Award for 2019. You can find the full story here -
New paper on
#Autism
& PTSD symptoms, shows many experiences that autistic folk find traumatic are not recognised in DSM-5 PTSD criteria. These experiences are just as likely to lead to high PTSD symptoms. Change needed so no autistic person is denied PTSD DX and treatment! 1/2
#Autistic
#women
&girls (& parents), please share your wisdom: I’m writing about under-recognition of autism in females (hopefully for Mumsnet) - they want some ‘what to look out for’ points. I don’t want to mislead, over-generalise/simplify, or characature. Suggestions? RT
Many of my
#autistic
friends find video meetings (Zoom, Teams, etc) less tiring than in person meetings. I’d love to hear from
#autistic
folk; do you prefer video to in person meetings? What is it (apart from travel) that makes them less exhausting? RTs appreciated!
Sorry to be boring; isn’t it time
#UniversityChallenge
thought about diversity? What message does it send to see two ALL MALE teams, 7/8 white students, representing university ‘talent’?
@BBCTwo
plse think about effects on students who might be wondering if university is for them
It’s been such a privilege to be Head of Department
@SGDPCentreKCL
for the last 7 years - really delighted to be handing on the role to the wonderful Prof
@cathrynlewis
!
Delighted to announce that I have been appointed Head of Department at
@SGDPCentreKCL
, taking over from
@HappeLab
– a hard act to follow.
Look forward to working with all my wonderful colleagues in this new role.
We’re trying to find out about
#autistic
adults’ experiences of online video meetings vs in person. Can you help? Got time for a 30-45 min interview? We especially need
#autistic
men aged 20-40, to balance genders/ages! Please contact: marguerite.leoni
@kcl
.ac.uk RTs appreciated!
Are you the parent of an
#autistic
student who has been (in/formally, fixed-term or permanently)
#excluded
from school? Please consider helping with our research! Contact Tatjana.Zeljic
@kcl
.ac.uk RT appreciated, thanks!
Today I was on a viva panel for fantastic
#PhD
student in Amsterdam. The local panel members gave the UK academics more time (for Qs) with inevitable, admirably good-humoured
#Brexit
jokes. I was embarrassed to be British - have never felt that before.
#EUScienceTogether
#askingAutistic
folk, please? We are gathering examples of visual experiences that might be special to
#autism
, for a new questionnaire. Can you give us e.g.s of
#hypersensitivity
to visual stimuli, focus on details, or preference for peripheral vision? Thanks for e.g.s and RTs!
Great paper by my wonderful ex-PhD student
@Hr_pickard
- she worked so hard, assessing cognitive aspects of social anxiety in autistic and non-autistic teenagers; thank you to all the schools, families,and young people who made this research possible!
Please help with my wonderful PhD student, David Mason’s, research on
#autistic
older adults’ decision making and quality of life. RTs much appreciated!
Thank you, Uta, I would not be here without you! And thank you to everyone who’s tweeted about this programme- and for those who have emailed me, I’m working through those messages and will reply asap!
Excellent overview on where we are now in understanding
#autism
, also in women and in old age by
@HappeLab
, and a hint of the kind and wonderful person that Francesca is. Don't miss this episode of The Life Scientific on BBC i-player.
If you’re near
@BirkbeckUoL
on June 6th 2023 and interested in
#autism
and
#mentalhealth
you can sign up for my (free) Rosalind Franklin talk at 6pm here:
Thank you so much for the privilege of talking about our (with many wonderful colleagues and students)
#autism
research! And thank you to the many kind tweeps who have commented on the programme!
Don't let the bank holiday throw you,
#TheLifeScientific
is back on tomorrow morning on
@BBCRadio4
. My guest is autism expert and professor of cognitive neuroscience, Francesca Happé
@HappeLab
. She tells me how people with autism experience their world.
I don’t usually do politics on twitter, but I do think Cameron’s referendum was an object lesson in cowardice and his walking away afterwards was the epitome of poor leadership. Ok, said it, over and out.
Please help with our new online study helping to understand how
#actuallyautistic
adults experience stressful or traumatic life events. Addressing lack of research on
#PTSD
in
#ASD
! For information and to take part: Please RT
New study about
#visual
behaviour in 4-15yr old children who are typically developing,
#autistic
or otherwise neurodivergent (eg ADHD).
#Parents
willing to complete a 30 min survey online, please go to:
Thanks so much - and for RTs!
How much do I love working
@SGDPCentreKCL
- forty decking the halls, our wonderful Bernard, Chris and co have been hanging dementors for our Christmas party!
How lucky am I; today I get to work with
@utafrith
- who, 30 years ago, gave me the huge privilege of being her PhD student
@The_MRC
Cognitive Development Unit
@ucl
, and has been teaching me ever since!
If you are an
#autistic
adult who has experienced
#school_exclusion
from UK mainstream school, please help with our
#research
(30min online interview). Contact Tatjana.zeljic
@kcl
.ac.uk for details. RTs appreciated!
@AspieHuman
I agree - one of the reasons for late autism diagnosis in girls seems to be that they are not causing anyone else (teachers, peers) any bother, although they are suffering and misunderstood
This work by Drs Freya Rumball & Nick Grey (&me) also shows >40% of the
#autistic
adults in this study who had experienced a traumatic event (whether in DSM-5 list or not) reported clinical levels of
#PTSD
symptoms. Much higher than in non-autistic adults (c. 9%)!
Great article about our absent PM: “It should stand as a permanent mark of shame that the PM has not bothered to record so much as a 10-second video about the educational future of the hundreds of thousands of children his government has so chaotically failed.”
New must-read by the wonderful Moffitt & Caspi
@SGDPCentreKCL
@KingsIoPPN
; the power of longitudinal studies to uncover the origins of individual differences, mental health, risk & resilience.
How many person hours are wasted each week queuing for the few gates at
#DenmarkHill
station? Many valuable
#NHS
staff amongst them. Please build another exit
@TLRailUK
!
Much deserved: the genuinely interdisciplinary, deeply empathic, and extremely wise Prof Eric Taylor receives the inaugural
@acamh
President’s Medal at
#acamhTizard18
Thank you
@AutisticaUK
for funding my wonderful PhD student
@Hr_pickard
, trying to understand origins (and hence treatment) of social anxiety in autism. Thanks to all the schools who have welcomed her, too!
Please help with (and RT!) our new online study to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and wellbeing in
#autistic
and non-autistic adults. Option to enter a prize draw. For more information, please click link:
Congratulations to the wonderful Connie Kasari, new President-elect of
#INSAR
! Also congrats to
#JohnRobison
, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and all the other worthy award winners!
"Like many women, believing in myself is something I’ve always struggled with. I think doubts can be important reality checks, but I would never want them to prevent me from achieving things."
@L_Arseneault
shares her insights, influences & inspirations:
“We are increasingly realising that compensation to appear ‘neurotypical’ has negative effects on mental health for many autistic people." -
@HappeLab
, supported by the
@NIHRMaudsleyBRC
, commenting on a new paper in
@TheLancetPsych
Congratulations to Prof Eamon McCrory
@uclpals
, who has been appointed to lead the UKRI's Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind programme
@UCLMentalHealth
@UKRI_News
New (open access) meta-analysis paper by David Mason and Simone Capp on outcome studies with
#autistic
adults… need for outcome metrics that reflect what matters to the autistic community
Please RT this study looking for
#autistic
adults to contribute their views on moving house! Also, is there an
#EstateAgent
out there who would like to partner with us to become the UK’s 1st autism-friendly estate agent?
3) Finally, the MAP project aims to understand
#autistic
and non-autistic people’s experience of
#moving
home. Anyone 18+ living in the UK can take part in this online survey (30-60 mins) here: (5/6)
@soundcube
@DrCherylllP
Glad to say we (Dr Freya Rumball & Prof Chris Brewin) have just had a piece on
#PTSD
#Autism
& changes needed to
#DSM5
, accepted by
@TheLancetPsych
. Data to come on similar high rates of PTSD symptoms after DSM5 qualifying & atypical traumas
Please help with (and RT!) our new online study to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and wellbeing in
#autistic
and non-autistic adults. Option to enter a prize draw. For more information, please click link:
Join us on world
#autism
day to find out more about autism and girls at the
@NAHTnews
conference; ideal for teachers & all wanting to hear the ‘many voices’! Please RT
If you’re near
@BirkbeckUoL
on June 6th 2023 and interested in
#autism
and
#mentalhealth
you can sign up for my (free) Rosalind Franklin talk at 6pm here:
We are looking for autistic adults, adults with ADHD and neurotypical adults to take part in a new study about wellbeing at work. Please see info and link below to find out more.
Thank you to all the
#autistic
adults who have helped with our study about wellbeing at work! We now need men and neurotypical participants, please. RTs appreciated!
We are looking for autistic adults, adults with ADHD and neurotypical adults to take part in a new study about wellbeing at work. Please see info and link below to find out more.
In case anyone is curious what I (not at all too generously) wrote in acknowledgement of the huge role the wonderful
@utafrith
has played in my career, in the next tweet is a snippet from my new book with
@SueReviews
(1/2)
You can watch the
#JCPP60
@acamh
fantastic 10min talks here, by
@SGDPCentreKCL
stars
@RobertPlomin
& Terrie Moffitt, as well as the wonderful Maggie Snowling and Bradley Peterson (& if you don’t fancy my bit on
#autism
you can just skip the last bit)!
At
#HowICommunicate
@thewoodbug
@ESRC
conference yesterday
@soundcube
Jon Adams spoke so beautifully and movingly about
#autistic
rights and struggles to be heard, I didn’t want to distract myself by tweeting - so here it is, late but heartfelt!
Congrats Dr Liz O’Nions who bravely undertook research with hugely under-researched children who respond very negativelyto any perceived demands. Many debates, but no arguments about impact on wellbeing; we can’t help if we don’t understand. Well done Liz!
Congrats!🥇
CAMH Best Paper Award goes to Dr. Liz O’Nions and co- authors, Prof Essi Viding, Dr. Caroline Floyd, Emma Quinlan, Connie Pidgeon, Dr. Judith Gould,
@HappeLab
Paper
Full list of
@acamh
Awards winners
@WileyPsychology
Do come and hear the wonderful Prof Anita Thapar give the
@SGDPCentreKCL
Inaugural Prof Sir Michael Rutter Lecture
@KingsIoPPN
3/7/18 4.30pm (and be home in time for the match!)