Research papers

Below, you will find research I have led or been closely involved in. Click each title to find a PDF of the paper, a plain English summary and video explanation. Each page will open in a new tab.

Please note that this area is under construction - links will become live as I create new content, so please check back later for other papers. It takes a while to make accessible versions, so in the meantime, you can see my up to date publication list on my professional page.

Self-injury and suicidality in autistic people

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Suicidality in autistic people: a mixed-methods approach to contributing factors. (coming soon!)
Lifetime stressor exposure is related to suicidality in autistic adults: A multinational study. (coming soon!)

Empathic disequilibrium as a predictor of non-suicidal self-injury in autistic and non-autistic people (2024)

"Potential mechanisms underlying suicidality in autistic people with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): testing hypotheses from the interpersonal theory of suicide" (2023)

"Non-suicidal self-injury and its relation to suicide through acquired capability: testing this causal mechanism in a mainly late-diagnosed autistic sample" (2022)

"The relevance of the interpersonal theory of suicide for predicting past-year and lifetime suicidality in autistic adults" (2022)

"Links between self-injury and suicidality in autism" (2020)

"A 'choice', an 'addiction', a way 'out of the lost': Exploring self-injury in autistic people without intellectual disability" (2019)

Autistic experiences of menopause

Coming soon from Jessica Kingsley Publishers: our book on autism and menopause. More news soon!

“Struggling for Years”: An International Survey on Autistic Experiences of Menopause. (Coming soon!)

Stepping Into Who I Fully Am: A Creative Exploration of Autistic Menopause. (Coming soon!)

"'A perfect storm': Autistic experiences of menopause and midlife" (2024)

"Autism research is ‘all about the blokes and the kids’: Autistic women breaking the silence on menopause" (2021)

"‘When my autism broke’: A qualitative study spotlighting autistic voices on menopause" (2020)

Physical and mental health issues related to autism

"Sex-specific mechanisms for eating disorder risk in men and women with autistic traits: the role of alexithymia" (2023)

"Lifetime and perceived stress, social support, loneliness, and health in autistic adults" (2021)

"Alexithymia may explain the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder psychopathology" (2020)

"The loneliness of me: The assumption of social disinterest and its worrying consequences in autism" (2019)

Social, cognitive and emotional processes in autistic and non-autistic people

"Levels of self-representation and their sociocognitive correlates in late-diagnosed autistic adults" (2021)

"Self-reported sex differences in high-functioning adults with autism: A meta-analysis" (2018)

"What can autism teach us about the role of sensorimotor systems in higher cognition? New clues from studies on language, action semantics, and abstract emotional concept processing" (2018)

"Default mode hypoconnectivity underlies a sex-related autism spectrum" (2016)

"Reduced volume of the arcuate fasciculus in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum conditions" (2016)

"Whole-brain functional hypoconnectivity as an endophenotype of autism in adolescents" (2015)

"Lost for emotion words: what motor and limbic brain activity reveals about autism and semantic theory" (2015)

"Brain routes for reading in adults with and without autism: EMEG evidence" (2014)

"Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and abstractions: Local fMRI activity indexes semantics, not lexical categories" (2014)

"Brain and behavioral correlates of action semantic deficits in autism" (2013)

"Sensorimotor semantics on the spot: brain activity dissociates between conceptual categories within 150 ms" (2013)

"A role for the motor system in binding abstract emotional meaning" (2012)

Other papers I have co-authored

I have been a more minor contributor to several other papers on the topics of language processing, attention, autism, and eating disorders. For completeness (you know how an autistic brain needs completeness), you can find a list and summaries of these other papers here. You will also be able to download them if you wish.