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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"social impairment"”.
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Reconceptualizing Social Impairment Using Informant Report
… some form of dysfunction. Yet, the assessment of impairment remains considerably flawed. Typical instruments used to measure impairment are susceptible to criterion contamination (e.g., explicitly confounding symptoms with impairment, as a result of mood-biased responses involved in self report). …
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A Developmental Model Predicting Adjustment in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Executive Functions, Social Impairment, and Friendship Quality
… characterized by several core deficits including social skills impairments and difficulty processing social information. Little is known about the role of contributing factors adjustment in this population. The first aim of this study was to evaluate two meditational models of youth with ASD in …
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ASD Traits, Social Competence, and Co-Occurring Psychopathology: The Moderating Role of Gender
… behaviorally defined ASD traits and observable social impairment and co-occurring psychopathology, in a non-clinical sample of young adults. It was hypothesized that gender would moderate the relationship between ASD traits and observed social impairment and co-occurring psychopathology, such …
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Theory of mind following paediatric traumatic brain injury : a comparative study of South African children
… The fact that previous research shows an impairment in social competence following traumatic brain injury (TBI) alludes to a potential relationship between TBI and ToM. Although the relationship between paediatric TBI (pTBI) and ToM ability is relatively unexplored, especially within a …
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Social subtypes in autism: an examination of their validity and relations to measures of social cognition
… & Attwood, 1987; Wing & Gould, 1979) subtypes of social impairment in a sample of autistic individuals and the relations between social deficits and role-taking ability. Specifically, fifty-three autistic persons were assigned by clinical raters to one of a) socially aloof, b) passive interaction, …
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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Positive Illusory Bias, and the Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health
… bias occurs across academic, behavioral, social, and functional domains. Historically, positive illusory bias is associated with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but is not necessarily limited to this disorder. This study uses the dual-factor model of mental health (DFM) to …
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Eye-Gaze Analyis of Facial Emotion Expression in Adolescents with ASD
… these differences may contribute to observed social impairment. This study extends prior research in this area with an integrated examination of both expression and recognition of emotion, and evaluation of spontaneous generation of emotional expression in response to another person's emotion, …
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Acupuncture and premenstrual syndrome
… the symptoms of PMS often result in work and/or social impairment which disrupts the quality of their lives. The aetiology of PMS from a Western medical perspective still remains unclear even though numerous theories has been proposed. Although some pharmacological agents have proven effective …
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Exploring intrinsic learning in an augmented reality app for adults with autism spectrum disorder
… disorder (ASD) display varying levels of social impairment that can manifest as difficulty with communicating, stereotyped behaviour, difficulty starting and maintaining relationships, and inflexible thinking (APA, 2013). The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between …
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Predictors of Outcome for Children with Autism Receiving a Behavioral Intervention
… with many different levels of language and social impairment, differences in levels of cognitive impairment, varying levels of aberrant behavior, and discrepancies in the presence or amount of restrictive and repetitive behavior. The heterogeneity found within the ASD population is coupled …
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Co-Occurring Social Anxiety and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms in Emerging Adults: Links with Working Memory and Social Functioning
… disorder (ADHD) and social anxiety symptoms often display poorer social skills and overall social functioning when compared to individuals with elevations on just ADHD or social anxiety symptoms. That is, co-occurring elevations on ADHD and social anxiety appear to …
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Critical window in autism : a study on Shank3
… (ASDs) are clinically defined by the symptoms of social impairment and repetitive behavior, affecting 1 in 68 children in the United States. Because patients with ASDs typically display symptoms before the age of three, the ASDs are classically categorized as developmental disorders. One of the …
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Disorganized Intimacy: Disability, Sexuality, and Social Life at a Disability Service Centre in Montreal, Quebec
… disabled people with independent living and social integration programs. Emerging from a deficit-model of disability, these programs are designed to mitigate the presumed social impairments of intellectually disabled people. Social skills training programs facilitate inclusion, purportedly …
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Relations between age, autism severity, behavioral treatment and the amount of time in regular education classrooms among students with autism
… without disabilities. For students with autism, social, communication, and behavioral deficits make inclusion difficult. The severity of deficits change over time, and therefore, so too do the effects of these deficits upon inclusion. Although most research indicates autism symptoms improve with …
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How do adolescents define depression? Links with depressive symptoms, self-recognition of depression, and social and emotional competence
… pathways to talking to someone. Adolescents' social and emotional competence was also examined in association with severity of their depressive symptomatology. Developed categories and subcategories of adolescent depression were guided by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental …
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The Roles of Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Neurotransmitters in an Animal Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… stimuli, hyperarousal, and a significant social impairment. All of these symptoms must persist for at least 30 days and not be due to illness, medication, or substance abuse. To date, no definitive diagnostic biomarkers have been identified for PTSD. Recent research, however, points toward …
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Emotion Perception in Asperger's Syndrome and High-functioning Autism: The Importance of Diagnostic Criteria and Cue Intensity
… disorder that is associated with marked social dysfunction. Deficits in the perception of nonverbal cues of emotion may be related to this social impairment. Research has indicated that children with autism are limited in their emotion perception abilities, but studies that have addressed …
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Body image perceptions, stress and associated psychopathologies in a non-clinical sample.
… which these concerns resulted in distress, all social impairment. Overall, the results demonstrated that BMI values were positively correlated with personal appearance concerns. High BMI values correlated with greater dissatisfaction with personal appearance. Self ratings of appearance values …
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NEW PHARMACOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR MUTANT MICE AND ZEBRAFISH AS NEUROBEHAVIOURAL MODELS
… which is characterized by severe and pervasive impairment in reciprocal socialization, qualitative impairment in communication and repetitive or stereotyped behaviour associated to resistance to change. Oxytocin (OT) is a peptidic hormone best known for its role in lactation and parturition. …
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Riabilitazione protesica ed implanto-protesica di pazienti in età evolutiva affetti da Displasia Ectodermica
… oral function, phonesis and esthetic, reducing social impairment. Treated patients showed normal cephalometric measurement. Early rehabilitation is able to prevent the prognatissm of the mandibula . The number of teeth was significantly related to several changes in craniofacial morphology. …