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SUMMARY:Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside 
 the lab - Bhismadev Chakrabarti\, University of Reading 
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CONTACT:Simon Braschi
DESCRIPTION:Autism Spectrum Conditions are behaviourally defined\, which h
 ighlights the need to focus on understanding the behavioural phenotype. Ma
 ny autistic people experience challenges in social-communicative behaviour
 . A theoretical account suggests that differential response to social rewa
 rds plays a critical role in such challenges. In our lab\, we developed an
 d tested different paradigms to create new ways to quantify the response t
 o social rewards in adults and children\, and reveal new insights into its
  underpinning mechanisms. This research\, like the majority of autism rese
 arch worldwide\, takes place in western Europe and USA. To move beyond the
 se artificial boundaries in another strand of our research\, we studied th
 e autistic phenotype in >11000 Indian schoolchildren. This set of studies 
 not only allowed us to build an autism research toolkit in India\, but als
 o provided insights into the impact of socio-linguistic factors on the man
 ifestation of autism. The final strand of our ongoing research connects th
 e research within and outside the laboratory through the development of mo
 bile apps to digitally phenotype autism-related features in the general po
 pulation. 
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