scholarly journals When Alterations in Social Cognition Meet Subjective Complaints in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evaluation With the “ClaCoS” Battery

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shasha Morel-Kohlmeyer ◽  
Alix Thillay ◽  
Sylvie Roux ◽  
Isabelle Amado ◽  
Lindsay Brenugat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Adults With Autism ◽  
Correlational Approach ◽  
Subjective Complaints ◽  
Main Components

Background: Deficit in social communication is a core feature in Autism Spectrum Disorder but remains poorly assessed in classical clinical practice, especially in adult populations. This gap between needs and practice is partly due to a lack of standardized evaluation tools. The multicentric Research group in psychiatry GDR3557 (Institut de Psychiatrie) developed a new battery for social cognitive evaluation named “ClaCoS,” which allows testing the main components of social cognition: Emotion Recognition, Theory of Mind, Attributional Style, and Social Perception and Knowledge. It further provides an assessment of subjective complaints in social cognition.Methods: We compared the social cognition abilities of 45 adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder without intellectual disability and 45 neurotypically developed volunteers using the “ClaCoS” battery, in order to determine its relevance in the evaluation of social cognition impairments in autism. A correlational approach allowed us to test the links between subjective complaints and objectively measured impairments for the different components of social cognition.Results: As expected, the Autism Spectrum Disorder group showed deficits in all four components of social cognition. Moreover, they reported greater subjective complaints than controls regarding their social abilities, correlated to the neuropsychological assessments.Conclusion: The “ClaCoS” battery is an interesting tool allowing to assess social impairments in autism and to specify the altered components, for a better adjustment of tailored social cognition training programs. Our results further suggest that people with Autism Spectrum Disorder have a good social cognitive insight, i.e., awareness into social cognitive functioning, and may thus benefit from social cognitive training tools.

Family Perspectives on Social-Cognitive Impairment in Verbal Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-452
Author(s):  
Kristen T. MacKenzie ◽  
Carla A. Mazefsky ◽  
Nancy J. Minshew ◽  
Shaun M. Eack
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
Cognitive Measures ◽  
Family Perspectives ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Caregiver Report

Social-cognitive challenges in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often assessed using caregiver report or performance-based instruments. This study compared caregiver report and performance-based measures of social cognition to examine convergence. A total of 128 verbal individuals with ASD were administered performance-based tests of social cognition assessing theory of mind, and one family member completed a measure of social cognition. Caregiver reports of social cognition were weakly and not significantly correlated with performance-based test scores. Caregiver- and performance-based measures converged for children compared with adults and for participants with lower intellectual ability. More research is needed to develop social-cognitive measures that incorporate caregiver perspectives and are robust across individuals with ASD of all ages and levels of intellectual functioning.

Comprehensive comparison of social cognitive performance in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (15) ◽  
pp. 2557-2565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy E. Pinkham ◽  
Kerrianne E. Morrison ◽  
David L. Penn ◽  
Philip D. Harvey ◽  
Skylar Kelsven ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Cognitive Differences ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison

AbstractBackgroundAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) are separate neurodevelopmental disorders that are both characterized by difficulties in social cognition and social functioning. Due to methodological confounds, the degree of similarity in social cognitive impairments across these two disorders is currently unknown. This study therefore conducted a comprehensive comparison of social cognitive ability in ASD and SCZ to aid efforts to develop optimized treatment programs.MethodsIn total, 101 individuals with ASD, 92 individuals with SCZ or schizoaffective disorder, and 101 typically developing (TD) controls, all with measured intelligence in the normal range and a mean age of 25.47 years, completed a large battery of psychometrically validated social cognitive assessments spanning the domains of emotion recognition, social perception, mental state attribution, and attributional style.ResultsBoth ASD and SCZ performed worse than TD controls, and very few differences were evident between the two clinical groups, with effect sizes (Cohen's d) ranging from 0.01 to 0.34. For those effects that did reach statistical significance, such as greater hostility in the SCZ group, controlling for symptom severity rendered them non-significant, suggesting that clinical distinctions may underlie these social cognitive differences. Additionally, the strength of the relationship between neurocognitive and social cognitive performance was of similar, moderate size for ASD and SCZ.ConclusionsFindings largely suggest comparable levels of social cognitive impairment in ASD and SCZ, which may support the use of existing social cognitive interventions across disorders. However, future work is needed to determine whether the mechanisms underlying these shared impairments are also similar or if these common behavioral profiles may emerge via different pathways.

scholarly journals Commonalities in social and non-social cognitive impairments in adults with autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia

2013 ◽  
Vol 148 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun M. Eack ◽  
Amber L. Bahorik ◽  
Summer A.F. McKnight ◽  
Susan S. Hogarty ◽  
Deborah P. Greenwald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Adults With Autism

scholarly journals Exploring the social cognition network in young adults with autism spectrum disorder using graph analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Vagnetti ◽  
Maria Chiara Pino ◽  
Francesco Masedu ◽  
Sara Peretti ◽  
Ilenia Le Donne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Graph Analysis ◽  
Adults With Autism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Young Adults With Autism

Neurobiological mechanisms of social cognition treatment in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (14) ◽  
pp. 2374-2384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Rosenblau ◽  
Garret O'Connell ◽  
Hauke R. Heekeren ◽  
Isabel Dziobek
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Computer Training ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Adults With Autism ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Adults With Asd

AbstractBackgroundThe promise of precision medicine for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) hinges on developing neuroscience-informed individualized interventions. Taking an important step in this direction, we investigated neuroplasticity in response to an ecologically-valid, computer-based social-cognitive training (SCOTT).MethodsIn an active control group design, 48 adults with ASD were randomly assigned to a 3-month SCOTT or non-social computer training. Participants completed behavioral tasks, a functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging session before and after the training period.ResultsThe SCOTT group showed social-cognitive improvements on close and distant generalization tasks. The improvements scaled with reductions in functional activity and increases in cortical thickness in prefrontal regions.ConclusionIn sum, we provide evidence for the sensitivity of neuroscientific methods to reflect training-induced social-cognitive improvements in adults with ASD. These results encourage the use of neuroimaging data to describe and quantify treatment-related changes more broadly.

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