Anxiety and Attentional Bias to Threat in Children at Increased Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Milosavljevic, Bosiljka; Shephard, Elizabeth; Happé, Francesca G.; Johnson, Mark H.; Charman, Tony
Titel	Anxiety and Attentional Bias to Threat in Children at Increased Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47 (2017) 12, S.3714-3727 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-016-3012-1
Schlagwörter	Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Autism; Anxiety; At Risk Students; Clinical Diagnosis; Comparative Analysis; Severity (of Disability); Siblings; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Elementary School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Angst; Schweregrad; Sibling; Geschwister; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	Anxiety and threat bias were examined in 6-8-year-old children at familial-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and low-risk (LR, n = 37) controls. The high-risk (HR) group was divided into those who met diagnostic criteria for ASD (HR-ASD, n = 15) and those who did not (HR-non ASD, n = 24). The HR-ASD group had highest levels of parent-reported anxiety. The HR-non ASD group exhibited increased threat bias on a spatial-cueing task, while the HR-ASD group did not. Anxiety symptoms were associated with both threat bias and ASD severity. These findings suggest that the mechanisms underlying anxiety in HR siblings without ASD are similar to those in non-ASD populations. However, among children with ASD, hypersensitivity to threat may not underlie anxiety symptoms. [This report was written with the BASIS Team.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01