Dion, Jacinthe Paquette, Geneviève De La Sablonnière-Griffin, Mireille Argumedes, Malena Martin-Storey, Alexa Bolduc, Marie-Louise Hélie, Sonia Bussières, Ève-Line
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Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Background Child maltreatment is a significant social problem impacting both health and society, with severe and enduring consequences. Certain children, such as those with neurodevelopmental conditions like autism, may be more at risk of experiencing maltreatment. However, little research has examined the characteristics of these children. This st...
Brown, Tashalee R. Jansen, Madeline O. Zhou, A. Ning Moog, Dominic Xie, Hui Liebesny, Katherine V. Xu, Kevin Y. Lin, Binx Y. Deng, Wisteria Y.
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Background Incidence rates of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and gender dysphoria (GD) are rising not only in the general population, but particularly among children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders (EDs). While ED rates have risen during the COVID pandemic, trends in co-occurring autism, ADHD, and GD h...
Smith, Marchella Cameron, Lindsey Ferguson, Heather J
Peer reviewed: True / People with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have difficulties imagining events, which might result from difficulty mentally generating and maintaining a coherent spatial scene. This study compared this scene construction ability between autistic (N = 55) and neurotypical (N = 63) adults. Results showed that scene construction...
Bedford, Saashi A Lai, Meng-Chuan Lombardo, Michael V Chakrabarti, Bhismadev Ruigrok, Amber Suckling, John Anagnostou, Evdokia Lerch, Jason P Taylor, Margot Nicolson, Rob
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BACKGROUND: Autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are heterogeneous neurodevelopmental conditions with complex underlying neurobiology that is still poorly understood. Despite overlapping presentation and sex-biased prevalence, autism and ADHD are rarely studied together, and sex differences are often overlooked. Population mod...
Frigerio, Alessandra Knight, Tess Rella, Riccardo Sinigaglia, Elena Camussi, Elisabetta Montali, Lorenzo
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Parents vary in their gradual adaptation to the demands of caring for an autistic child. Their experiences can be positive, negative, or a combination of both, depending on the severity of the cases and various personal and social factors. Cross-cultural comparisons can aid in understanding how contextual factors, such as the availabil...
Sousa, Daniela Ferreira, Ana Sequeira, Joana Monteiro, Marilyn J. Simões, Marco Castelo-Branco, Miguel
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Neurodevelopmental disorders affect the lifespan of diagnosed individuals and their families. COVID-19 challenged these families with daily routine unpredictability requiring rapid adaptations. Moreover, associations and schools were closed, leaving these families without regular social support. Here, we investigate which individual and family fact...
Haire, Lauren Symonds, Jennifer Senior, Joyce D’Urso, Giulio
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Frontiers in Education
The construct of pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is relatively new and contested. Clinical reports indicate a population who obsessively resist everyday demands and have an extreme need for control. Children and adolescents who might experience PDA, and their families, struggle significantly in their daily lives, creating a need for more resear...
Caria, Andrea
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The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry
Historical evidence from stimulation and lesion studies in animals and humans demonstrated a close association between the hypothalamus and typical and atypical socioemotional behavior. A central hypothalamic contribution to regulation of socioemotional responses was also provided indirectly by studies on oxytocin and arginine vasopressin. However,...
Valderrama, Alena Nikièma, Béatrice Forgeot d’Arc, Baudouin Guerrero, Lucila Giroux, Mathieu
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Caregivers of autistic persons often face “courtesy stigma,” a phenomenon by which caregivers experience stigma because of their association with a person whose disability may be stigmatized. Understanding the repercussions of this stigma is crucial not only for caregivers’ mental health but also for the quality of care provided to the...
Manville, Rían W. Block, Samantha D. Illeck, Claire L. Kottmeier, Jessica Sidlow, Richard Abbott, Geoffrey W.
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
KCNB1, on human chromosome 20q13.3, encodes the alpha subunit of the Kv2.1 voltage gated potassium channel. Kv2.1 is ubiquitously expressed throughout the brain and is critical in controlling neuronal excitability, including in the hippocampus and pyramidal neurons. Human KCNB1 mutations are known to cause global development delay or plateauing, ep...
