Matthew D. Lerner

Very proud of SCTL Doctoral Student, Jared Richards, for this important and exciting work on improved understanding and measurement of autistic burnout:

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New Research Reveals How Autistic Teens’ Brains Respond in Some Social Settings, Helping Them ‘Pass’ as Non-Autistic Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived — or “pass” — as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers from Drexel University's A...

New research from our lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports reveals how the brains of Autistic teens' who 'pass' as Non-Autistic in some social settings respond to faces. Read more about how the findings could reshape how we understand the toll of masking.

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Automatic and affective processing of faces as mechanisms of passing as non-autistic in adolescence Scientific Reports - Automatic and affective processing of faces as mechanisms of passing as non-autistic in adolescence

We are excited to share the our latest research on the phenomenon of Passing as Non-Autistic (PAN), which has just been published with @springernature.com in @Scientific Reports! This paper offers one of the first findings identifying potential neural correlates of PAN! Read here: rdcu.be/euo25

Happy to have this opportunity to answer questions from across the internet on Neurodivergence! Thanks @wired.com, for the opportunity to do so!

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