Sarah Cassidy

Contact

• workRoom B70 School of Psychology
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Sarah.Cassidy@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://sites.google.com/view/mentalhealthinautism

Biography

I hold a BSc (Hons) from the University of St Andrews, and an MSc and PhD from the University of Nottingham. Before joining Nottingham as an Assistant Professor in 2017, I spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Autism Research Centre (ARC), University of Cambridge, before starting my own research group at Coventry University. I am currently a visiting researcher in the ARC Cambridge, and the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University, collaborating on a number of projects exploring mental health and suicidality in autism. I am Principal Investigator on the Mental Health in Autism project funded by the ESRC, and the first Psychological Autopsy study in autism funded by NIHR-CLAHRC and Autistica.

Expertise Summary

Autism. Mental Health. Self-Harm. Suicide Prevention. Social Cognition. Psychology.

Recent Publications

• CASSIDY S, MITCHELL P, CHAPMAN P and ROPAR D, 2015. Processing of Spontaneous Emotional Responses in Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Effect of Stimulus Type. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research.
• CASSIDY, SARAH, ROPAR, DANIELLE, MITCHELL, PETER and CHAPMAN, PETER, 2014. Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response? AUTISM RESEARCH. 7(1), 112-123
• SIMON BARON-COHEN, SARAH CASSIDY, BONNIE AUYEUNG, CARRIE ALLISON, MARYAM ACHOUKHI, SARAH ROBERTSON, ALEXA POHL and MENG-CHUAN LAI, 2014. Attenuation of typical sex differences in 800 adults with autism vs. 3,900 controls. Plos One. 9(7), e102251
• SARAH CASSIDY, PAUL BRADLEY, JANINE ROBINSON, CARRIE ALLISON, MEGHAN MCHUGH and SIMON BARON-COHEN, 2014. Suicidal ideation and suicide plans or attempts in adults with Asperger's syndrome attending a specialist diagnostic clinic: a clinical cohort study. Lancet Psychiatry. 1(2), 142-147

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• CASSIDY S, MITCHELL P, CHAPMAN P and ROPAR D, 2015. Processing of Spontaneous Emotional Responses in Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Effect of Stimulus Type. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research.
• CASSIDY, SARAH, ROPAR, DANIELLE, MITCHELL, PETER and CHAPMAN, PETER, 2014. Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response? AUTISM RESEARCH. 7(1), 112-123
• SIMON BARON-COHEN, SARAH CASSIDY, BONNIE AUYEUNG, CARRIE ALLISON, MARYAM ACHOUKHI, SARAH ROBERTSON, ALEXA POHL and MENG-CHUAN LAI, 2014. Attenuation of typical sex differences in 800 adults with autism vs. 3,900 controls. Plos One. 9(7), e102251
• SARAH CASSIDY, PAUL BRADLEY, JANINE ROBINSON, CARRIE ALLISON, MEGHAN MCHUGH and SIMON BARON-COHEN, 2014. Suicidal ideation and suicide plans or attempts in adults with Asperger's syndrome attending a specialist diagnostic clinic: a clinical cohort study. Lancet Psychiatry. 1(2), 142-147
• CHARLOTTE MONTGOMERY, CARRIE ALLISON, MENG-CHUAN LAI, SARAH CASSIDY, PETER LANGDON and SIMON BARON-COHEN, Do adults with high functioning autism or Asperger Syndrome differ in empathy and emotion recognition? Journal of autism and developmental disorders. 46(6), 1931-1940.
• ALEXA POHL, SARAH CASSIDY, BONNIE AUYEUNG and SIMON BARON-COHEN, Uncovering steroidopathy in women with autism: a latent class analysis. Molecular Autism. 5(1), 27
• SARAH CASSIDY, PENELOPE HANNANT, TERESA TAVASSOLI, CARRIE ALLISON, PAULA SMITH and SIMON BARON-COHEN, Dyspraxia and autistic traits in adults with and without autism spectrum conditions. Molecular Autism. 7(1), 48
• ROBERT DUDAS, CHARLES LOVEJOY, SARAH CASSIDY, CARRIE ALLISON, PAULA SMITH and SIMON BARON-COHEN, The overlap between autistic spectrum conditions and borderline personality disorder. Plos One. 12(9), e0184447
• PENELOPE HANNANT, SARAH CASSIDY and TERESA TAVASSOLI, Sensorimotor difficulties are associated with the severity of autism spectrum conditions. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 10,
• PENELOPE HANNANT, TERESA TAVASSOLI and SARAH CASSIDY, The role of sensorimotor difficulties in autism spectrum conditions. Frontiers in Neurology. 7,
• SARAH CASSIDY and JACQUELINE RODGERS, Understanding and prevention of suicide in autism. Lancet Psychiatry. 4(6), e11
• MIRABEL PELTON and SARAH CASSIDY, Are autistic traits associated with suicidality? A test of the interpersonal‐psychological theory of suicide in a non‐clinical young adult sample. Autism Research. 10(11), 1891-1904