Association of cognitive and adaptive skills with internalizing and externalizing problems in autistic children and adolescents / Javiera DONOSO in Autism Research, 17-3 (March 2024)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism Research > 17-3 (March 2024) . - p.596-609 Titre : Association of cognitive and adaptive skills with internalizing and externalizing problems in autistic children and adolescents Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Javiera DONOSO, Auteur ; Fiona RATTRAY, Auteur ; Annelies DE BILDT, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Penny WILLIAMS, Auteur ; Michael ABSOUD, Auteur ; Vasiliki TOTSIKA, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.596-609 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Abstract The presence of an intellectual disability (ID) alongside autism is considered to increase the risk for mental health and behavior problems in children and adolescents. Existing evidence is restricted by looking at ID as a categorical classification. The study aimed to examine the association of cognitive and adaptive behavior skills with internalizing and externalizing problems in a large sample of autistic children and adolescents, across a wide range of cognitive skills. Participants were 2759 children and adolescents aged between 4 and 18?years recruited as part of the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC), of whom 709 (approximately 25%) had ID. Multiple regression models examined associations of internalizing and externalizing problems with cognitive and adaptive skills (communication, daily living, and socialization skills). Cognitive skills were not associated with externalizing problems but were associated with more internalizing problems in autistic children without ID (Cog ?: 0.126). All adaptive skill domains were inversely associated with externalizing (Communication ?: ?0.145; Daily-Living ?: ?0.132; Socialization ?: ?0.289) and internalizing problems (Communication ?: ?0.074; Daily-Living ?: ?0.064; Socialization ?: ?0.213) in those without ID. Daily living (?: ?0.158) and socialization skills (?: ?0.104) were inversely correlated with externalizing problems in autistic children with ID, while only socialization problems (?: ?0.099) were associated with internalizing problems in this group. Socialization skills were systematically associated with internalizing and externalizing problems across all levels of cognitive functioning. Supporting social skills development may benefit all aspects of child mental health, while recognizing that children with higher cognitive skills are more vulnerable to internalizing problems might assist with earlier identification of these problems. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3056 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=525 [article] Association of cognitive and adaptive skills with internalizing and externalizing problems in autistic children and adolescents [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Javiera DONOSO, Auteur ; Fiona RATTRAY, Auteur ; Annelies DE BILDT, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Penny WILLIAMS, Auteur ; Michael ABSOUD, Auteur ; Vasiliki TOTSIKA, Auteur . - p.596-609. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism Research > 17-3 (March 2024) . - p.596-609 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Abstract The presence of an intellectual disability (ID) alongside autism is considered to increase the risk for mental health and behavior problems in children and adolescents. Existing evidence is restricted by looking at ID as a categorical classification. The study aimed to examine the association of cognitive and adaptive behavior skills with internalizing and externalizing problems in a large sample of autistic children and adolescents, across a wide range of cognitive skills. Participants were 2759 children and adolescents aged between 4 and 18?years recruited as part of the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC), of whom 709 (approximately 25%) had ID. Multiple regression models examined associations of internalizing and externalizing problems with cognitive and adaptive skills (communication, daily living, and socialization skills). Cognitive skills were not associated with externalizing problems but were associated with more internalizing problems in autistic children without ID (Cog ?: 0.126). All adaptive skill domains were inversely associated with externalizing (Communication ?: ?0.145; Daily-Living ?: ?0.132; Socialization ?: ?0.289) and internalizing problems (Communication ?: ?0.074; Daily-Living ?: ?0.064; Socialization ?: ?0.213) in those without ID. Daily living (?: ?0.158) and socialization skills (?: ?0.104) were inversely correlated with externalizing problems in autistic children with ID, while only socialization problems (?: ?0.099) were associated with internalizing problems in this group. Socialization skills were systematically associated with internalizing and externalizing problems across all levels of cognitive functioning. Supporting social skills development may benefit all aspects of child mental health, while recognizing that children with higher cognitive skills are more vulnerable to internalizing problems might assist with earlier identification of these problems. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3056 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=525

Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism / Hannah MEYER-LINDENBERG in Molecular Autism, 13 (2022)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 13 (2022) . - 43 p. Titre : Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Hannah MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Bethany OAKLEY, Auteur ; Jumana AHMAD, Auteur ; Luke MASON, Auteur ; Emily J. H. JONES, Auteur ; Hannah L. HAYWARD, Auteur ; Jennifer COOKE, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Rosemary HOLT, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Christian BECKMANN, Auteur ; Heike TOST, Auteur ; Andreas MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Declan G. MURPHY, Auteur ; Michael J. BRAMMER, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur Article en page(s) : 43 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Humans  Facial Recognition  Autistic Disorder/diagnostic imaging  Emotions  Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods  Biomarkers  Autism Spectrum Disorder  Facial Expression  Autism  Autism spectrum disorder  Clustering analysis  Development  Facial expression recognition  Multi-site  Social brain  Stratification biomarkers  fMRI  consultant to F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier and has received royalties  from Sage Publications and Guilford Publications. TB served in an advisory or  consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Takeda, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by  Lilly, Medice, and Takeda. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP  Medien, Oxford University Press  the present work is unrelated to these  relationships. AM-L has received consultant fees in the past two years from  Boehringer Ingelheim, Elsevier, Lundbeck Int. Neuroscience Foundation, Lundbeck  AS, The Wolfson Foundation, Thieme Verlag, Sage Therapeutics, von Behring  Stiftung, Fondation FondaMental, Janssen-Cilag GmbH, MedinCell, Brain Mind  Institute, CISSN. Furthermore, he has received speaker fees from Italian Society  of biological Psychiatry, Merz-Stiftung, Forum Werkstatt Karlsruhe, Lundbeck SAS  France, BAG Psychiatrie Oberbayern. JB has been in the past 3 years a consultant  to/member of advisory board of/and/or speaker for Takeda/Shire, Roche, Medice,  Angelini, Janssen, and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these companies,  and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He has no other financial  or material support, including expert testimony, patents, royalties. EL is an  Associate Editor at Molecular Autism. DM has been paid for advisory board work by  F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier, and for editorial work by Springer. The  other authors declare that they have no competing interests. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Difficulties in social communication are a defining clinical feature of autism. However, the underlying neurobiological heterogeneity has impeded targeted therapies and requires new approaches to identifying clinically relevant bio-behavioural subgroups. In the largest autism cohort to date, we comprehensively examined difficulties in facial expression recognition, a key process in social communication, as a bio-behavioural stratification biomarker, and validated them against clinical features and neurofunctional responses. METHODS: Between 255 and 488 participants aged 6-30 years with autism, typical development and/or mild intellectual disability completed the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces task, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task and/or the Films Expression Task. We first examined mean-group differences on each test. Then, we used a novel intersection approach that compares two centroid and connectivity-based clustering methods to derive subgroups based on the combined performance across the three tasks. Measures and subgroups were then related to clinical features and neurofunctional differences measured using fMRI during a fearful face-matching task. RESULTS: We found significant mean-group differences on each expression recognition test. However, cluster analyses showed that these were driven by a low-performing autistic subgroup (~ 30% of autistic individuals who performed below 2SDs of the neurotypical mean on at least one test), while a larger subgroup (~ 70%) performed within 1SD on at least 2 tests. The low-performing subgroup also had on average significantly more social communication difficulties and lower activation in the amygdala and fusiform gyrus than the high-performing subgroup. LIMITATIONS: Findings of autism expression recognition subgroups and their characteristics require independent replication. This is currently not possible, as there is no other existing dataset that includes all relevant measures. However, we demonstrated high internal robustness (91.6%) of findings between two clustering methods with fundamentally different assumptions, which is a critical pre-condition for independent replication. CONCLUSIONS: We identified a subgroup of autistic individuals with expression recognition difficulties and showed that this related to clinical and neurobiological characteristics. If replicated, expression recognition may serve as bio-behavioural stratification biomarker and aid in the development of targeted interventions for a subgroup of autistic individuals. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-022-00520-7 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=491 [article] Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Hannah MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Bethany OAKLEY, Auteur ; Jumana AHMAD, Auteur ; Luke MASON, Auteur ; Emily J. H. JONES, Auteur ; Hannah L. HAYWARD, Auteur ; Jennifer COOKE, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Rosemary HOLT, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Christian BECKMANN, Auteur ; Heike TOST, Auteur ; Andreas MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Declan G. MURPHY, Auteur ; Michael J. BRAMMER, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur . - 43 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 13 (2022) . - 43 p. Mots-clés : Humans  Facial Recognition  Autistic Disorder/diagnostic imaging  Emotions  Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods  Biomarkers  Autism Spectrum Disorder  Facial Expression  Autism  Autism spectrum disorder  Clustering analysis  Development  Facial expression recognition  Multi-site  Social brain  Stratification biomarkers  fMRI  consultant to F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier and has received royalties  from Sage Publications and Guilford Publications. TB served in an advisory or  consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Takeda, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by  Lilly, Medice, and Takeda. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP  Medien, Oxford University Press  the present work is unrelated to these  relationships. AM-L has received consultant fees in the past two years from  Boehringer Ingelheim, Elsevier, Lundbeck Int. Neuroscience Foundation, Lundbeck  AS, The Wolfson Foundation, Thieme Verlag, Sage Therapeutics, von Behring  Stiftung, Fondation FondaMental, Janssen-Cilag GmbH, MedinCell, Brain Mind  Institute, CISSN. Furthermore, he has received speaker fees from Italian Society  of biological Psychiatry, Merz-Stiftung, Forum Werkstatt Karlsruhe, Lundbeck SAS  France, BAG Psychiatrie Oberbayern. JB has been in the past 3 years a consultant  to/member of advisory board of/and/or speaker for Takeda/Shire, Roche, Medice,  Angelini, Janssen, and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these companies,  and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He has no other financial  or material support, including expert testimony, patents, royalties. EL is an  Associate Editor at Molecular Autism. DM has been paid for advisory board work by  F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier, and for editorial work by Springer. The  other authors declare that they have no competing interests. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Difficulties in social communication are a defining clinical feature of autism. However, the underlying neurobiological heterogeneity has impeded targeted therapies and requires new approaches to identifying clinically relevant bio-behavioural subgroups. In the largest autism cohort to date, we comprehensively examined difficulties in facial expression recognition, a key process in social communication, as a bio-behavioural stratification biomarker, and validated them against clinical features and neurofunctional responses. METHODS: Between 255 and 488 participants aged 6-30 years with autism, typical development and/or mild intellectual disability completed the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces task, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task and/or the Films Expression Task. We first examined mean-group differences on each test. Then, we used a novel intersection approach that compares two centroid and connectivity-based clustering methods to derive subgroups based on the combined performance across the three tasks. Measures and subgroups were then related to clinical features and neurofunctional differences measured using fMRI during a fearful face-matching task. RESULTS: We found significant mean-group differences on each expression recognition test. However, cluster analyses showed that these were driven by a low-performing autistic subgroup (~ 30% of autistic individuals who performed below 2SDs of the neurotypical mean on at least one test), while a larger subgroup (~ 70%) performed within 1SD on at least 2 tests. The low-performing subgroup also had on average significantly more social communication difficulties and lower activation in the amygdala and fusiform gyrus than the high-performing subgroup. LIMITATIONS: Findings of autism expression recognition subgroups and their characteristics require independent replication. This is currently not possible, as there is no other existing dataset that includes all relevant measures. However, we demonstrated high internal robustness (91.6%) of findings between two clustering methods with fundamentally different assumptions, which is a critical pre-condition for independent replication. CONCLUSIONS: We identified a subgroup of autistic individuals with expression recognition difficulties and showed that this related to clinical and neurobiological characteristics. If replicated, expression recognition may serve as bio-behavioural stratification biomarker and aid in the development of targeted interventions for a subgroup of autistic individuals. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-022-00520-7 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=491

Gray matter covariations and core symptoms of autism: the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project / Ting MEI in Molecular Autism, 11 (2020)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 11 (2020) Titre : Gray matter covariations and core symptoms of autism: the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Ting MEI, Auteur ; Alberto LLERA, Auteur ; Dorothea L. FLORIS, Auteur ; Natalie J. FORDE, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Rosemary J. HOLT, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Annika RAUSCH, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Declan G. M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Autism  Canonical correlation analysis  Independent component analysis  Magnetic resonance imaging  Voxel-based morphometry  Cilag BV, Eli Lilly, Shire, Lundbeck, Roche, and Servier. He is not an employee of  any of these companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He  has no other financial or material support, including expert testimony, patents or  royalties. CFB is director and shareholder in SBGNeuro Ltd. TB served in an advisory  or consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Shire, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by Lilly,  Medice, and Shire. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP Medien, and  Oxford University Press. TC has received consultancy from Roche and received book  royalties from Guildford Press and Sage. DGM has been a consultant to, and advisory  board member, for Roche and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these  companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. The present work  is unrelated to the above grants and relationships. The other authors report no  biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies in autism spectrum disorder (autism) have yielded diverging results. This might partly be attributed to structural alterations being associating with the combined influence of several regions rather than with a single region. Further, these structural covariation differences may relate to continuous measures of autism rather than with categorical case-control contrasts. The current study aimed to identify structural covariation alterations in autism, and assessed canonical correlations between brain covariation patterns and core autism symptoms. METHODS: We studied 347 individuals with autism and 252 typically developing individuals, aged between 6 and 30 years, who have been deeply phenotyped in the Longitudinal European Autism Project. All participants' VBM maps were decomposed into spatially independent components using independent component analysis. A generalized linear model (GLM) was used to examine case-control differences. Next, canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was performed to separately explore the integrated effects between all the brain sources of gray matter variation and two sets of core autism symptoms. RESULTS: GLM analyses showed significant case-control differences for two independent components. The first component was primarily associated with decreased density of bilateral insula, inferior frontal gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, and increased density of caudate nucleus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The second component was related to decreased densities of the bilateral amygdala, hippocampus, and parahippocampal gyrus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The CCA results showed significant correlations between components that involved variation of thalamus, putamen, precentral gyrus, frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes, and the cerebellum, and repetitive, rigid and stereotyped behaviors and abnormal sensory behaviors in autism individuals. LIMITATIONS: Only 55.9% of the participants with autism had complete questionnaire data on continuous parent-reported symptom measures. CONCLUSIONS: Covaried areas associated with autism diagnosis and/or symptoms are scattered across the whole brain and include the limbic system, basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum, precentral gyrus, and parts of the frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes. Some of these areas potentially subserve social-communicative behavior, whereas others may underpin sensory processing and integration, and motor behavior. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-00389-4 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=438 [article] Gray matter covariations and core symptoms of autism: the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Ting MEI, Auteur ; Alberto LLERA, Auteur ; Dorothea L. FLORIS, Auteur ; Natalie J. FORDE, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Rosemary J. HOLT, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Annika RAUSCH, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Declan G. M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 11 (2020) Mots-clés : Autism  Canonical correlation analysis  Independent component analysis  Magnetic resonance imaging  Voxel-based morphometry  Cilag BV, Eli Lilly, Shire, Lundbeck, Roche, and Servier. He is not an employee of  any of these companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He  has no other financial or material support, including expert testimony, patents or  royalties. CFB is director and shareholder in SBGNeuro Ltd. TB served in an advisory  or consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Shire, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by Lilly,  Medice, and Shire. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP Medien, and  Oxford University Press. TC has received consultancy from Roche and received book  royalties from Guildford Press and Sage. DGM has been a consultant to, and advisory  board member, for Roche and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these  companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. The present work  is unrelated to the above grants and relationships. The other authors report no  biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies in autism spectrum disorder (autism) have yielded diverging results. This might partly be attributed to structural alterations being associating with the combined influence of several regions rather than with a single region. Further, these structural covariation differences may relate to continuous measures of autism rather than with categorical case-control contrasts. The current study aimed to identify structural covariation alterations in autism, and assessed canonical correlations between brain covariation patterns and core autism symptoms. METHODS: We studied 347 individuals with autism and 252 typically developing individuals, aged between 6 and 30 years, who have been deeply phenotyped in the Longitudinal European Autism Project. All participants' VBM maps were decomposed into spatially independent components using independent component analysis. A generalized linear model (GLM) was used to examine case-control differences. Next, canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was performed to separately explore the integrated effects between all the brain sources of gray matter variation and two sets of core autism symptoms. RESULTS: GLM analyses showed significant case-control differences for two independent components. The first component was primarily associated with decreased density of bilateral insula, inferior frontal gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, and increased density of caudate nucleus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The second component was related to decreased densities of the bilateral amygdala, hippocampus, and parahippocampal gyrus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The CCA results showed significant correlations between components that involved variation of thalamus, putamen, precentral gyrus, frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes, and the cerebellum, and repetitive, rigid and stereotyped behaviors and abnormal sensory behaviors in autism individuals. LIMITATIONS: Only 55.9% of the participants with autism had complete questionnaire data on continuous parent-reported symptom measures. CONCLUSIONS: Covaried areas associated with autism diagnosis and/or symptoms are scattered across the whole brain and include the limbic system, basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum, precentral gyrus, and parts of the frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes. Some of these areas potentially subserve social-communicative behavior, whereas others may underpin sensory processing and integration, and motor behavior. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-00389-4 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=438

How do core autism traits and associated symptoms relate to quality of life? Findings from the Longitudinal European Autism Project / Bethany OAKLEY in Autism, 25-2 (February 2021)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism > 25-2 (February 2021) . - p.389-404 Titre : How do core autism traits and associated symptoms relate to quality of life? Findings from the Longitudinal European Autism Project Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Bethany OAKLEY, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Jumana AHMAD, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Antonia SAN JOSE CACERES, Auteur ; Rosemary HOLT, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Emily SIMONOFF, Auteur ; Declan MURPHY, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.389-404 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : anxiety  autism  depression  quality of life  well-being Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Previous studies suggest that some autistic individuals report lower satisfaction, or well-being, with different aspects of everyday life than those without autism. It is unclear whether this might be partly explained by symptoms of anxiety and/or depression, which affect at least 20%-50% of autistic people. In this study, we measured individual differences in well-being in 573 six to thirty-year-olds with and without a diagnosis of autism. We investigated whether individual differences in well-being were explained by autism traits (e.g. social-communication difficulties) and/or anxiety and depression symptoms. We showed that, though well-being was lower for some autistic individuals, compared to those without autism, many autistic individuals reported good well-being. Where well-being was reduced, this was particularly explained by depression symptoms, across all ages. For children/adolescents, anxiety and social-communication difficulties were also related to some aspects of well-being. Our study suggests that support and services for improving mental health, especially depression symptoms, may also improve broader outcomes for autistic people. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361320959959 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=442 [article] How do core autism traits and associated symptoms relate to quality of life? Findings from the Longitudinal European Autism Project [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Bethany OAKLEY, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Jumana AHMAD, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Antonia SAN JOSE CACERES, Auteur ; Rosemary HOLT, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Emily SIMONOFF, Auteur ; Declan MURPHY, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur . - p.389-404. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism > 25-2 (February 2021) . - p.389-404 Mots-clés : anxiety  autism  depression  quality of life  well-being Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Previous studies suggest that some autistic individuals report lower satisfaction, or well-being, with different aspects of everyday life than those without autism. It is unclear whether this might be partly explained by symptoms of anxiety and/or depression, which affect at least 20%-50% of autistic people. In this study, we measured individual differences in well-being in 573 six to thirty-year-olds with and without a diagnosis of autism. We investigated whether individual differences in well-being were explained by autism traits (e.g. social-communication difficulties) and/or anxiety and depression symptoms. We showed that, though well-being was lower for some autistic individuals, compared to those without autism, many autistic individuals reported good well-being. Where well-being was reduced, this was particularly explained by depression symptoms, across all ages. For children/adolescents, anxiety and social-communication difficulties were also related to some aspects of well-being. Our study suggests that support and services for improving mental health, especially depression symptoms, may also improve broader outcomes for autistic people. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361320959959 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=442

Mapping the link between socio-economic factors, autistic traits and mental health across different settings / Teresa DEL BIANCO in Autism, 28-5 (May 2024)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism > 28-5 (May 2024) . - p.1280-1296 Titre : Mapping the link between socio-economic factors, autistic traits and mental health across different settings Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Teresa DEL BIANCO, Auteur ; Georgia LOCKWOOD ESTRIN, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Bethany F. OAKLEY, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Antonia SAN JOSE CACERES, Auteur ; Hannah HAYWARD, Auteur ; Mandy POTTER, Auteur ; Wendy MACKAY, Auteur ; Petrusa SMIT, Auteur ; Carlie DU PLESSIS, Auteur ; Lucy BRINK, Auteur ; Priscilla SPRINGER, Auteur ; Hein ODENDAAL, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Sven BÖLTE, Auteur ; Mark JOHNSON, Auteur ; Declan MURPHY, Auteur ; Jan BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Emily JH JONES, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1280-1296 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : autism spectrum disorders  environmental factors Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Autistic individuals experience higher rates of externalising and internalising symptoms that may vary with environmental factors. However, there is limited research on variation across settings that may highlight common factors with globally generalisable effects. Data were taken from two cohorts: a multinational European sample (n = 764; 453 autistic; 311 non-autistic; 6-30?years), and a South African sample (n = 100 non-autistic; 3-11?years). An exploratory factor analysis aggregated clinical (Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Index), adaptive traits (Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scale) and socio-economic variables (parental employment and education, home and family characteristics) in each cohort separately. With regression, we investigated the effect of these factors and autistic traits on internalising and externalising scores (measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). Cohorts showed similar four-factor structures (Person Characteristics, Family System, Parental and Material Resources). The 'Family System' factor captured family size and maternal factors and was associated with lower internalising and externalising symptoms in both cohorts. In the European cohort, high autistic traits reduced this effect; the opposite was found in the South Africa cohort. Our exploratory findings from two separate analyses represent consistent evidence that Family System is associated with internalising and externalising symptoms, with a context-specific impact in persons with high autism traits. Lay Abstract Autistic individuals are more likely than non-autistic individuals to experience a mental health condition in their lifetime, and this includes externalising and internalising symptoms. We know very little about how different environments and family conditions impact these symptoms for autistic individuals. Improving our understanding of these relationships is important so that we can identify individuals who may be in greater need of support. In this article, we seek to improve our understanding of how environmental and family conditions impact externalising and internalising symptoms in autistic and non-autistic people. To do this, we conducted analyses with two cohorts in very different settings - in Europe and South Africa - to ensure our findings are globally representative. We used advanced statistical methods to establish environmental and family conditions that were similar to each other, and which could be combined into specific 'factors'. We found that four similar 'factors' could be identified in the two cohorts. These were distinguished by personal characteristics and environmental conditions of individuals, and were named Person Characteristics, Family System, Parental and Material Resources. Interestingly, just 'Family System' was associated with internalising and externalising symptoms, and this was the same in both cohorts. We also found that having high traits of autism impacted this relationship between Family System and mental health conditions with opposite directions in the two settings. These results show that characteristics in the Family System are associated with internalising and externalising symptoms, and autistic persons are particularly impacted, reinforcing the notion that family stressors are important to consider when implementing policy and practice related to improving the mental health of autistic people. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613231200297 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=527 [article] Mapping the link between socio-economic factors, autistic traits and mental health across different settings [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Teresa DEL BIANCO, Auteur ; Georgia LOCKWOOD ESTRIN, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Bethany F. OAKLEY, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Antonia SAN JOSE CACERES, Auteur ; Hannah HAYWARD, Auteur ; Mandy POTTER, Auteur ; Wendy MACKAY, Auteur ; Petrusa SMIT, Auteur ; Carlie DU PLESSIS, Auteur ; Lucy BRINK, Auteur ; Priscilla SPRINGER, Auteur ; Hein ODENDAAL, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Sven BÖLTE, Auteur ; Mark JOHNSON, Auteur ; Declan MURPHY, Auteur ; Jan BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Emily JH JONES, Auteur . - p.1280-1296. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism > 28-5 (May 2024) . - p.1280-1296 Mots-clés : autism spectrum disorders  environmental factors Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Autistic individuals experience higher rates of externalising and internalising symptoms that may vary with environmental factors. However, there is limited research on variation across settings that may highlight common factors with globally generalisable effects. Data were taken from two cohorts: a multinational European sample (n = 764; 453 autistic; 311 non-autistic; 6-30?years), and a South African sample (n = 100 non-autistic; 3-11?years). An exploratory factor analysis aggregated clinical (Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Index), adaptive traits (Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scale) and socio-economic variables (parental employment and education, home and family characteristics) in each cohort separately. With regression, we investigated the effect of these factors and autistic traits on internalising and externalising scores (measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). Cohorts showed similar four-factor structures (Person Characteristics, Family System, Parental and Material Resources). The 'Family System' factor captured family size and maternal factors and was associated with lower internalising and externalising symptoms in both cohorts. In the European cohort, high autistic traits reduced this effect; the opposite was found in the South Africa cohort. Our exploratory findings from two separate analyses represent consistent evidence that Family System is associated with internalising and externalising symptoms, with a context-specific impact in persons with high autism traits. Lay Abstract Autistic individuals are more likely than non-autistic individuals to experience a mental health condition in their lifetime, and this includes externalising and internalising symptoms. We know very little about how different environments and family conditions impact these symptoms for autistic individuals. Improving our understanding of these relationships is important so that we can identify individuals who may be in greater need of support. In this article, we seek to improve our understanding of how environmental and family conditions impact externalising and internalising symptoms in autistic and non-autistic people. To do this, we conducted analyses with two cohorts in very different settings - in Europe and South Africa - to ensure our findings are globally representative. We used advanced statistical methods to establish environmental and family conditions that were similar to each other, and which could be combined into specific 'factors'. We found that four similar 'factors' could be identified in the two cohorts. These were distinguished by personal characteristics and environmental conditions of individuals, and were named Person Characteristics, Family System, Parental and Material Resources. Interestingly, just 'Family System' was associated with internalising and externalising symptoms, and this was the same in both cohorts. We also found that having high traits of autism impacted this relationship between Family System and mental health conditions with opposite directions in the two settings. These results show that characteristics in the Family System are associated with internalising and externalising symptoms, and autistic persons are particularly impacted, reinforcing the notion that family stressors are important to consider when implementing policy and practice related to improving the mental health of autistic people. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613231200297 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=527

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Social brain activation during mentalizing in a large autism cohort: the Longitudinal European Autism Project / Carolin MOESSNANG in Molecular Autism, 11 (2020)  

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Tackling hypo and hyper sensory processing heterogeneity in autism: From clinical stratification to genetic pathways / Julian TILLMANN ; Freddy CLIQUET ; Frédérique AMSELLEM ; Anna MARUANI ; Claire LEBLOND ; Anita BEGGIATO ; David GERMANAUD ; Anouck AMESTOY ; Myriam LY-LE MOAL ; Daniel UMBRICHT ; Christopher CHATHAM ; Lorraine MURTAGH ; Manuel BOUVARD ; Marion LEBOYER ; Tony CHARMAN ; Thomas BOURGERON ; Richard DELORME ; Guillaume DUMAS ; EU-AIMS LEAP Group in Autism Research, 16-2 (February 2023)  

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The neuroanatomical substrates of autism and ADHD and their link to putative genomic underpinnings / Caroline GURR ; Johanna LEYHAUSEN ; Hanna SEELEMEYER ; Anke BLETSCH ; Tim SCHAEFER ; Charlotte M. PRETZSCH ; Bethany OAKLEY ; Eva LOTH ; Dorothea L. FLORIS ; Jan K. BUITELAAR ; Christian F. BECKMANN ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI ; Tony CHARMAN ; Emily J. H. JONES ; Julian TILLMANN ; Chris H CHATHAM ; Thomas BOURGERON ; EU-AIMS LEAP Group ; Declan G. M. MURPHY ; Christine ECKER in Molecular Autism, 14 (2023)  

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Unique dynamic profiles of social attention in autistic females / Teresa DEL BIANCO in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63-12 (December 2022)  

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