The Autism Research Centre (ARC) brings together scientists working on autism from around the University of Cambridge. It also has major collaborations with other universities and works closely with clinical and voluntary sector services.
Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director, Autism Research Centre in Cambridge.
ARC has approximately 30 research scientists and support staff, drawn from a range of disciplines (cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, paediatrics, neonatology, genetics, bioinformatics, endocrinology, proteomics, and biochemistry).
It utilises state-of-the-art technology in these investigations, including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI and sMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), event-related potentials (ERPs), induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), whole-genome sequencing, ultrasound scanning, amniocentesis, and gaze-tracking.
The ARC is partnered with the Autism Research Trust, the National Autistic Society (the UK’s leading charity for autism) and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust.
The ARC receives major funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wellcome Trust, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Autism Research Trust, among other sponsors.
Group photo by Alicethecamera
Selected publications
948: V Warrier, S Baron-Cohen (2019)
Mapping genotype to phenotype in neurodevelopmental copy number variants
The Lancet Psychiatry 6, 45-456
947: E Aydin, R Holt, D Chaplin, R Hawkes, C Allison, G Hackett, T Austin, A Tsompanidis, L Gabis, S I Ziv, S Baron-Cohen (2019)
Fetal Anogenital Distance Using Ultrasound
Prenatal Diagnosis 39, 27-535
946: L H Scholtens, F Agosta, C Alloza, D Arango, B Auyeung, S Baron-Cohen, S Basaia, M J Benders, F Beyer, L Booij, K P Braun (2019)
10Kin1day: A Bottom-Up Neuroimaging Initiative
Frontiers in Neurology 10, 425
945: T Wenhart, RAI Bethlehem, S Baron-Cohen, E Altenmüller (2019)
Autistic traits, resting-state connectivity, and absolute pitch in professional musicians: shared and distinct neural features
Molecular Autism 10, 20
944: A Abu-Akel, C Allison, S Baron-Cohen, D Heinke (2019)
The distribution of autistic traits across the autism spectrum: Evidence for discontinuous dimensional subpopulations underlying the autism continuum
Molecular Autism 10, 24
942: S A Bedford, M T M Park, G A Devenyi, S Tullo, J Germann, R Patel, E Anagnostou, S Baron-Cohen, E T Bullmore, L R Chura, M C Craig, C Ecker, D L Floris, R J Holt, R Lenroot, J P Lerch, M V Lombardo, D G M Murphy, A Raznahan, A N V Ruigrok, E Smith, M D Spencer, J Suckling, M J Taylor, A Thurm, MRC AIMS Consortium, M-C Lai, M M Chakravarty (2019)
Large-scale analyses of the relationship between sex, age and intelligence quotient heterogeneity and cortical morphometry in autism spectrum disorder
Molecular Psychiatry
941: G Bussu, E J H Jones, T Charman, M H Johnson, J K Buitelaar, BASIS Team (2019)
Latent trajectories of adaptive behaviour in infants at high and low familial risk for autism spectrum disorder
Molecular Autism 10, 13
940: F Uzefovsky, R A I Bethlehem, S Shamay-Tsoory, A Ruigrok, R Holt, M Spencer, L Chura, V Warrier, B Chakrabarti, E Bullmore, J Suckling, D Floris, S Baron-Cohen (2019)
The oxytocin receptor gene predicts brain activity during an emotion recognition task in autism
Molecular Autism 10, 12
939: I Pote, S Wang, V Sethna, A Blasi, E Daly, M Kuklisova-Murgasova, S Lloyd-Fox, E Mercure, P Busuulwa, V Stoencheva, T Charman, S C R Williams, M H Johnson, D G M Murphy, G M McAlonan, BASIS Team (2019)
Familial risk of autism alters subcortical and cerebellar brain anatomy in infants and predicts the emergence of repetitive behaviors in early childhood
Autism Research 12, 614-627
938: Q Zhao, D L Neumann, Y Cao, S Baron-Cohen, C Yan, R C K Chan, D H K Shum (2019)
Culture-Sex Interaction and the Self-Report Empathy in Australians and Mainland Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology 10, 396
937: R L Moseley, N J Gregory, P Smith, C Allison, S Baron-Cohen (2019)
A ‘choice’, an ‘addiction’, a way ‘out of the lost’: exploring self-injury in autistic people without intellectual disability
Molecular Autism
936: A Kolesnik, J Begum Ali, T Gliga, J Guiraud, T Charman, M H Johnson, E J H Jones, The BASIS Team (2019)
Increased cortical reactivity to repeated tones at 8 months in infants with later ASD
Translational Psychiatry 9, 46
935: Juan M. Gorriz, Javier Ramirez, F. Segovia, Francisco J. Martinez, Meng-Chuan Lai, Michael V. Lombardo, Simon Baron-Cohen, Mrc Aims Consortium, John Suckling (2019)
A Machine Learning Approach to Reveal the Neuro-Phenotypes of Autisms
International Journal of Neural Systems 29
934: X Sun, C Allison, L Wei, F E Matthews, B Auyeung, Y Y Wu, S Griffiths, J Zhang, S Baron-Cohen, C Brayne (2019)
Autism prevalence in China is comparable to Western prevalence
Molecular Autism 10, 7
933: J D Buxbaum, S Baron-Cohen, E Anagnostou, E, C Ashwin, C Betancur, B Chakrabarti, J N Crawley, R A Hoekstra, P R Hof, M-C Lai, M V Lombardo, C M Schumann (2019)
Rigor in science and science reporting: updated guidelines for submissions to Molecular Autism
Molecular Autism
932: J Tillmann, A S J Cáceres, C H Chatham, D Crawley, R Holt, B Oakley, B T Banaschewski, S Baron-Cohen, S Bölte, J K Buitelaar, S Durston, L Ham, E Loth E Simonoff, W Spooren D G Murphy, T Charman, the EU-AIMS LEAP Group (2019)
Investigating the factors underlying adaptive functioning in autism in the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project
Autism Research
931: R Haartsen, E J Jones, E V Orekhova, T Charman, M H Johnson, The BASIS Team (2019)
Functional EEG connectivity in infants associates with later restricted and repetitive behaviours in autism; a replication study
Translational Psychiatry 9
928: M V Lombardo, M-C Lai, S Baron-Cohen (2019)
Big data approaches to decomposing heterogeneity across the autism spectrum
Molecular Psychiatry 51