Recognition of facial emotion and affective prosody in children with ASD (+ADHD) and their unaffected siblings

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 257-271

  Oerlemans, Anoek M ^a,b   Van Der Meer, Jolanda M J ^a,b   Van Steijn, Daphne J ^b   De Ruiter, Saskia W ^a,b   De Bruijn, Yvette G E ^b   De Sonneville, Leo M J ^c   Buitelaar, Jan K ^a,b   Rommelse, Nanda N J ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); Autism spectrum disorders (ASD); Emotion recognition; Endophenotype; Sibling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE PROSODY; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SIBLING; SOCIAL COGNITION; UNAFFECTED SIBLING; VISUAL MEMORY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMORBIDITY; GENETICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMORBIDITY; EMOTIONS; ENDOPHENOTYPES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIBLINGS;

EID: 84901295295     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-013-0446-2     Document Type: Article

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