LAY SUMMARY: We investigated whether our previous findings on cognitive aging in autism could be confirmed in a new study measuring the cognitive effects of age in autistic and non-autistic adults. As expected, tasks that younger autistic adults had difficulties with (theory of mind, fluency) ...
Objective:The objective of this research was to explore the effects of risperidone on cognitive processes inchildren with autism and irritable behavior.Method:Thirty-eight children, ages 5-17 years with autism and severe behavioral disturbance, wererandomly assigned to risperidone (0.5 to 3.5 mg/day...
AIM: To explore the effect of cognitive-behavioral intervention on children with typical autism. METHODS: By case study, a 5 year-old autistic boy received cognitive-behavioral training including play therapy, behavioral intervention, cognitive and nonverbal communication training, and behavioral correctio...
such as the Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) [5,6], highlight cognitive flexibility challenges in autism [7,8]. However, studies employing cognitive flexibility tasks have yielded inconsistent findings [for reviews, see9,10]. Some tasks...
One interpretation is that general cognitive ability and the development of coping strategies across the lifespan, do not necessarily reduce ASD traits but may mitigate their effects. 展开 关键词: Adulthood Ageing Autism spectrum disorders Autism traits Diagnosis Psychiatric comorbidity ...
Parents of children with autism experience a greater impact from their child's therapy than once thought, according to new research out of York University's Faculty of Health.
Autism can bestow brilliance as well as cognitive difficulty, but how either scenario plays out in the brain is not clear. Now a study by University of Toronto researchers has found that a tiny gene fragment impacts the brain in a way that could explain
A physical, cognitive, or emotional impairment, often caused by a neurodevelopmental disorder such as cerebral palsy or autism spectrum disorder, that appears early in life and limits a person's ability to learn, communicate, or perform one or more activities of daily life. ...
Autism: the empathizing-systemizing (E-S) theory. The mind-blindness theory of autism spectrum conditions has been successful in explaining the social and communication difficulties that characterize these... S Baron-Cohen - 《Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences》 被引量: 757发表: 2010年...
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that presents as a spectrum with various co-morbid symptoms as well as cognitive traits. This chapter reviews diagnosis, putative etiologies, neurocognitive models, and anatomical and functional brain differences with summaries of commonly observed neuropsychological, ...