Brain scans reveal how people with autistic traits connect differently

Brain scans reveal how people with autistic traits connect differently

People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in unique ways during active conversation. A recent experiment published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that social difficulties related to autism might be a problem of mismatched communication styles rather than an inherent social deficit. For decades, clinical psychology has treated autism primarily as a social impairmen…