Lauren M. McGrath

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, in the general population, the personality trait neuroticism is significantly correlated with almost every psychiatric disorder and migraine, and it is shown that both psychiatric and neurological disorders have robust correlations with cognitive and personality measures.

TL;DR: This model is used to identify ∼1,000 genes that are significantly lacking in functional coding variation in non-ASD samples and are enriched for de novo loss-of-function mutations identified in ASD cases, suggesting that the role of de noVO mutations in ASDs might reside in fundamental neurodevelopmental processes.

TL;DR: High-field functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to study face perception in 11 adult individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 10 normal controls and found that individuals with ASD activated the fusiform face area and other brain areas normally involved in face processing when they viewed faces as compared to non-face stimuli.

TL;DR: The observation of reversed asymmetry in frontal language cortex reported previously in an independent autism sample is replicated, and similar reversal in boys with SLI is observed, further strengthening a phenotypic link between SLI and a subgroup of autism.

TL;DR: Phenotypic analyses supported the hypothesis that both RD and ADHD arise from multiple cognitive deficits rather than a single primary cognitive deficit, and twin analyses indicated that this shared weakness is primarily due to common genetic influences that increase susceptibility to both disorders.