Age-moderating effect in prepotent response inhibition in boys with Asperger syndrome: a 2.5 years longitudinal study

Following our previous cross-sectional analysis, indicating age-related improvements of response inhibition in a random-motor-generation task (MPT) in adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS), the present study reports data from a 2.5-year follow-up examination in the original sample. We found more m...

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Published inEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience Vol. 269; no. 3; pp. 361 - 364
Main Authors Weiss, Elisabeth M., Walter, Claudia, Fink, Andreas, Schulter, Günter, Mittenecker, Erich, Papousek, Ilona
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2019
Springer Nature B.V
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Adolescents
Age
Autism
Boys
Children
Children & youth
Longitudinal studies
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neurosciences
Psychiatry
Short Communication
Longitudinal
Cognitive flexibility
Inhibition
Memory updating
Autism spectrum disorder
Mittenecker pointing test
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Summary:Following our previous cross-sectional analysis, indicating age-related improvements of response inhibition in a random-motor-generation task (MPT) in adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS), the present study reports data from a 2.5-year follow-up examination in the original sample. We found more marked improvements within the follow-up interval in younger AS children, while older AS boys as well as typically developing (TD) boys remained at a relatively constant level throughout. The current longitudinal study further substantiates the notion that AS children (on average) catch up with TD children when they grow older as regards the basic inhibition of developing routine response patterns.
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ISSN:0940-1334
1433-8491
DOI:10.1007/s00406-018-0915-1