Francesca Happé on autism

The Life Scientific

BBC

Technology, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Francesca Happé started out as a research psychologist thirty years ago, she thought she could easily find out all there was to know about autism – and perhaps that wouldn’t have been impossible as there were so few papers published on it. Francesca’s studies have increased our knowledge of how people with autism experience the world around them, and their social interactions. She’s looked at their brains using various imaging techniques, studied the families of people with autism to explore their genetics, and raised awareness of how the condition can appear differently in women than in men. Jim al-Khalili talks to Francesca, now Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in London, about her research career and her current projects, including how people with autism experience mental health issues, such as PTSD.

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0:36.0	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific. I'm Jim Alkulele and I'm on a mission to interview as many of our leading scientists as I can
0:42.0	to find out what they're up to and what makes them tick. of our
0:44.0	understanding of autism
0:48.0	and what makes them tick. My guest today has seen our understanding of autism
0:49.0	change radically over her career.
0:51.0	When Francesca Hapey started out as a research psychologist 30 years
0:54.8	ago she thought she could easily find out all there was to know about autism and
0:59.7	perhaps that wouldn't have been impossible as there were so few papers published on it.
1:05.0	As well here, Francesca's studies have increased our knowledge of how people with autism
1:09.5	experience the world around them and of their social interactions.
1:14.0	She's looked at their brains using various imaging techniques,
1:17.0	studied the families of people with autism to explore their genetics
1:21.0	and raised awareness of how the condition can appear differently in women than in men.
1:26.6	Francesca's keen to talk about the abilities and assets of people with an autism diagnosis.
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