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Carrie Allison is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with notable contributions in cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, education, and genetics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Carrie Allison has published extensively in a variety of academic journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecular Autism
  • Autism
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Autism Research
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Among their recent papers are the following works:

  • "Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Is social camouflaging associated with anxiety and depression in autistic adults?" (2021, Molecular Autism)
  • "Association of Race/Ethnicity and Social Disadvantage With Autism Prevalence in 7 Million School Children in England" (2021, JAMA Pediatrics)
  • "Evidence-based support for autistic people across the lifespan: maximising potential, minimising barriers, and optimising the person-environment fit" (2020, The Lancet Neurology)
  • "Increased prevalence of non-communicable physical health conditions among autistic adults" (2020, Autism)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Rosemary Holt
  • Elizabeth Weir
  • Paula Smith
  • Alex Tsompanidis

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Fiona J. Scott;Carrie Allison;Joanna Williams

  • “Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions

    Laura Hull;K. V. Petrides;Carrie Allison;Paula Smith

  • Toward brief "red flags" for autism screening: The short Autism Spectrum Quotient and the short Quantitative Checklist in 1,000 cases and 3,000 controls.

    Carrie Allison;Bonnie Auyeung;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • The Autism Spectrum Quotient: Children’s Version (AQ-Child)

    Bonnie Auyeung;Simon Baron-Cohen;Sally Wheelwright;Carrie Allison

  • Measuring autistic traits in the general population: a systematic review of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) in a nonclinical population sample of 6,900 typical adult males and females

    Emily Ruzich;Carrie Allison;Paula Smith;Peter Watson

  • Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

    Varun Warrier;David M. Greenberg;David M. Greenberg;Elizabeth Weir;Clara Buckingham

  • Suicidal ideation and suicide plans or attempts in adults with Asperger's syndrome attending a specialist diagnostic clinic: a clinical cohort study

    Sarah Cassidy;Paul Bradley;Janine Robinson;Carrie Allison

  • Development and Validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)

    Laura Hull;William Mandy;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • The Q-CHAT (Quantitative CHecklist for Autism in Toddlers): a normally distributed quantitative measure of autistic traits at 18-24 months of age: preliminary report.

    Carrie Allison;Simon Baron-Cohen;Sally Wheelwright;Tony Charman

  • The Children's Empathy Quotient and Systemizing Quotient: Sex Differences in Typical Development and in Autism Spectrum Conditions

    Bonnie Auyeung;Sally Wheelwright;Carrie Allison;Matthew Atkinson

  • Defining the broader, medium and narrow autism phenotype among parents using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)

    Sally Wheelwright;Bonnie Auyeung;Carrie Allison;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Testing the Empathizing-Systemizing theory of sex differences and the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism in half a million people.

    David M. Greenberg;Varun Warrier;Carrie Allison;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Gender differences in self-reported camouflaging in autistic and non-autistic adults:

    Laura Hull;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Simon Baron-Cohen;Carrie Allison

  • The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test: Complete Absence of Typical Sex Difference in ~400 Men and Women with Autism

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Daniel C. Bowen;Rosemary J. Holt;Carrie Allison

  • Is social camouflaging associated with anxiety and depression in autistic adults

    Laura Hull;Lily Levy;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;Meng-Chuan Lai;K. V. Petrides

  • Empathy and emotion recognition in people with autism, first-degree relatives, and controls

    E Sucksmith;C Allison;S Baron-Cohen;B Chakrabarti;B Chakrabarti

  • The CAST (Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test) Test accuracy

    J. O. Williams;Fiona Scott;Carol Stott;Carrie Allison

  • Prevalence of autism in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Xiang Sun;Carrie Allison;Fiona E Matthews;Stephen J Sharp

  • Autism prevalence in China is comparable to Western prevalence

    Xiang Sun;Xiang Sun;Carrie Allison;Liping Wei;Fiona E. Matthews

  • Cognition in males and females with autism: similarities and differences.

    Meng-Chuan Lai;Michael V. Lombardo;Amber N. V. Ruigrok;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Bonnie Auyeung
Bonnie Auyeung University of Edinburgh
Meng-Chuan Lai
Meng-Chuan Lai Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Carol Brayne
Carol Brayne University of Cambridge
Sally Wheelwright
Sally Wheelwright University of Sussex
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading
Sarah Cassidy
Sarah Cassidy University of Nottingham
William Mandy
William Mandy University College London
Rosa A. Hoekstra
Rosa A. Hoekstra King's College London
Michael V. Lombardo
Michael V. Lombardo Italian Institute of Technology

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